Line height question

Question

Hi,
I am using the boilerplate. There are sections of content individually assigned styles - for example, <p>, <dt>, <dd>.
As these tag styles flow the same way and generally appear the same way on the page - if I want to increase the line height of the text for the entire page, instead of adding line-height to all 3 independent tag styles, is it best to set globally and define in the body tag?
Just wondering what would be the best method here?
Thanks!

Answer 1

Now, we're fishing in the dark here because we cannot see your code because you have not given us a link with which to view it, so we're offering pretty generic suggestions here…
There are two ways to call a text style in HTML. Either call it with the attribute for your text or call it as a <span> element.
So like osgood suggested, you can have a class that will define a line height that is pleasing to you that can be applied to anything thusly:
<ul>
     <li class="this">List item one</li>
     <li class="this">List item two</li>
     <li>This list item is not styled with the line height "this" because there is no class element.</li>
</ul>
<p class="this">This text will have osgood's line height, assuming you have added that class to your style sheet.</p>
<p>This text will <em>not</em> have osgood's line hight because there is no class="this" after the paragraph element in the HTML</p>
Or you can use the span element thusly:
<p>this text has no line height attribute <span class="this">but this text does</span></p>
(please understand that the line height adjustment in the above paragraph may be set entirely by the part with the line-height adjustment because that is the way web browsers work, applying line height for the entire line and not just the part that has the adjustment, so if there was a line break before your span element, there would be two different line heights.
And you can set up multiple line heights to affect any of your HTML in your CSS either by calling the class in your HTML or by simply defining all of the elements in your HTML page with the combination in your style sheet thusly:
p dt dd {
     line-height: 16px;
Got it?
-Mark