Padding sets apart text to emphasize it and line-height
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title></title> <style type="text/css" media="Screen"> * .padded-mild { padding-left: 1em; padding-right: 1em; line-height: 1em; } * .padded-emphasized { padding-left: 2em; padding-right: 2em; line-height: 2em; } * .padded-strong { padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 3em; line-height: 3em; } * .padded-extreme { padding-left: 4em; padding-right: 4em; line-height: 4em; } </style> </head> <body> <p><br /><span class="padded-mild">a letter...</span>→ <br /><span class="padded-emphasized">a word...</span>→ <br /><span class="padded-strong">a phrase...</span>→ <br /><span class="padded-extreme">a paragraph...</span>→ etc. </p> </body> </html>