{"id":2070,"date":"2017-02-24T15:50:47","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T23:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hellbach.us\/blog\/?p=2070"},"modified":"2017-02-24T15:50:47","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T23:50:47","slug":"deep-dive-css-font-metrics-line-height-and-vertical-align-vincent-de-oliveira","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hellbach.us\/blog\/tech\/dev\/deep-dive-css-font-metrics-line-height-and-vertical-align-vincent-de-oliveira\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep dive CSS: font metrics, line-height and vertical-align &#8211; Vincent De Oliveira"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:313,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/iamvdo.me\\\/en\\\/blog\\\/css-font-metrics-line-height-and-vertical-align?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=facebook&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251118201207\\\/https:\\\/\\\/iamvdo.me\\\/en\\\/blog\\\/css-font-metrics-line-height-and-vertical-align?utm_source=dlvr.it&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/iamvdo.me\\\/en\\\/blog\\\/css-font-metrics-line-height-and-vertical-align?utm_source=dlvr.it&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-23 03:23:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-23 03:23:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>An introduction to the inline formatting context. 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