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<head>
<title>CSS Test: letter-spacing</title>
<meta name="flags" content="ahem" />
<link rel="author" title="CSS1 Test Suite Contributors" href="http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/Test/CSS1/current/tsack.html"/>
<link rel="author" title="Ian Hickson" href="mailto:ian@hixie.ch"/>
<link rel="match" href="c542-letter-sp-001-ref.xht" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/fonts/ahem.css" />
<style type="text/css"><![CDATA[
div { font: 30px/1 Ahem; width: 15em; background: yellow; color: aqua; margin: 0 0 0 2em; }
.eight {letter-spacing: 60px;}
.nine {letter-spacing: normal;}
.ten {letter-spacing: 200%;} /* percentages are now valid per CSS-Text */
.eleven {letter-spacing: -0.5em;}
.fill { color: yellow; }
]]></style>
<link rel="help" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/text.html#spacing-props" title="16.4 Letter and word spacing: the 'letter-spacing' and 'word-spacing' properties"/>
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<p>There should be a stripy pattern of yellow and aqua below (each vertical stripe should be straight and unbroken).</p>
<div class="test">x  x     x  x </div>
<div class="test">x  x     x  x </div>
<div class="test"><span class="eight"> xx xx </span></div>
<div class="eight"><span class="nine">x  x     x  x </span></div>
<div class="ten"> xx xx </div>
<div class="eleven">x     x         <span class="fill">x</span> x   <span class="fill">x</span> x </div>
</body>
</html>