Inheritance problem of letter-spacing and its solution

One of the CSS properties, letter-spacing, is used to adjust letter spacing. However, even if letter-spacing is applied to a parent element such as the body element, the letter spacing of the child elements may not be as expected.

The reason for this is that letter-spacing is not a property that is automatically inherited by child elements. Therefore, if you want to apply the same letter-spacing to all elements, or if you want to unify the letter-spacing below a particular element, you can try the following solutions.

Solution 1: Apply letter-spacing to all elements

* { 
 letter-spacing: 0.1em; 
}

This method applies letter-spacing to all elements. However, if you want to change the letter spacing on a specific element, you must apply the style directly to that element.

Solution 2: Use custom properties to control inheritance

:root { 
 --spacing: 0.1em; 
} 
*{ 
 letter-spacing: var(--spacing); 
} 

.child { 
 --spacing: 0.05em; 
}

This method allows the use of custom CSS properties to inherit letter spacing. Using this method, changing the character spacing below a particular element can be accommodated by simply changing the value of the custom property.

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