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letter-spacing

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨July 2015⁩.

The letter-spacing attribute controls spacing between text characters.

If the attribute value is a unitless number (like 128), the browser processes it as a <length> in the current user coordinate system.

If the attribute value has a unit identifier, such as .25em or 1%, then the browser converts the <length> into its corresponding value in the current user coordinate system.

Note: As a presentation attribute, letter-spacing also has a CSS property counterpart: letter-spacing. When both are specified, the CSS property takes priority.

You can use this attribute with the following SVG elements:

Examples

Controlling SVG letter spacing

<svg viewBox="0 0 400 30" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
  <text y="20" letter-spacing="2">Bigger letter-spacing</text>
  <text x="200" y="20" letter-spacing="-0.5">Smaller letter-spacing</text>
</svg>

Usage notes

Value	`normal` \| `<length>`
Default value	`normal`
Animatable	Yes

For a description of the values, please refer to the CSS letter-spacing property.

Specifications

Specification
CSS Text Module Level 3> # letter-spacing-property>
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2> # LetterSpacingProperty>

Browser compatibility