background: mistyrose;
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' xml:lang='en'> <head> <title>word-spacing</title> <style type='text/css'> body { font: 14px sans-serif; } h4 { border-bottom: 1px solid pink; margin-bottom: 3px; } p { margin: 0; } .code { font-family: monospace; } .higher, .lower { word-spacing: 15px; background: mistyrose; color: crimson; } .lower { word-spacing: -5px; } </style> </head> <body> <h4>Word Spacing</h4> <p> The <span class='code'>word-spacing</span> property can take either a positive or negative length value. The higher the value, the <span class='higher'>farther apart the words</span>; the lower the value, <span class='lower'>the closer together the words</span>. </p> </body> </html>