line-height

noun

line-height

noun

1

Media, Publishing, Typography The height of a line of text.

Therefore, you could give an inline nonreplaced element a line-height of 1em and still have its background overlap the content of other lines.2006, Eric Meyer, CSS: The Definitive Guide, page 194:

Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — list of authors.