Sets or retrieves the size of the character grid used for rendering the text content of an element.
Syntax
| HTML |
{ layout-grid-char : sCharSize }
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| Scripting | [ sCharSize = ] object.style.layoutGridChar |
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Possible Values
| sCharSize | String that
specifies or receives one of the following values.| none | Default. No character grid is set. | auto | Largest character in the font of the element is used to set the character grid. | | length | Floating-point number, followed by an absolute units designator (cm, mm, in, pt, or pc) or a relative units designator (em, ex, or px). For more information about the supported length units, see CSS Length Units Reference. | | percentage | Integer, followed by a percent sign (%). The value is a percentage derived from the dimensions of the parent object. |
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The property is read/write
for all objects except the following, for which it is read-only:
currentStyle.
The property has a default value of
none. The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) attribute is
not inherited.
Expressions can be used in place of the preceding value(s), as of Microsoft® Internet Explorer 5. For more information, see About Dynamic Properties.
Remarks
The visual effects of the layout-grid-char attribute are similar to the lineHeight property.
Web documents in Asian languages, such as Chinese or Japanese, usually create a page layout for characters using a one- or two-dimensional grid. You can use the layout-grid attribute to incorporate this layout into Web documents.
The layout-grid-char attribute applies only to block-level elements.
Note For this property to have an effect, the
layout-grid-mode attribute must be set to
line or
both.
Example
This example uses the layout-grid-char attribute to specify character layout for a block of text.
<STYLE>
DIV.layout { layout-grid-char: auto }
</STYLE>
<DIV CLASS = "layout">
This is a block element containing a sentence of sample text.
</DIV>
Standards Information
This property is defined in
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Level 3 (CSS3) 
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Applies To
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BLOCKQUOTE,
BODY,
CENTER,
currentStyle,
DD,
DIR,
DIV,
DL,
DT,
FIELDSET,
FORM,
hn,
HR,
LI,
LISTING,
MARQUEE,
MENU,
OL,
P,
PLAINTEXT,
PRE,
runtimeStyle,
style,
TABLE,
TD,
TH,
TR,
UL,
XMP |