css/CSS2/text/letter-spacing-101.xht

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
    <head>
        <title>CSS Test: Letter-spacing set to 'inherit'</title>
        <link rel="author" title="Microsoft" href="http://www.microsoft.com/" />
        <link rel="help" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/text.html#propdef-letter-spacing" />
        <link rel="help" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/text.html#spacing-props" />
        <meta name="flags" content="ahem" />
        <meta name="assert" content="The 'letter-spacing' set to 'inherit' uses its parents' value for the spacing of letters." />
        <style type="text/css">
            div
            {
                font: 20px/1em Ahem;
            }
            #span1
            {
                margin-left: 1in;
            }
            #div1
            {
                letter-spacing: 1in;
            }
            #div1 div
            {
                letter-spacing: 0;
                letter-spacing: inherit;
            }
        </style>
    </head>
    <body>
        <p>Test passes if there are only two boxes below (with no jagged edges).</p>
        <div>
            <div>
                <span>x</span><span id="span1">x</span>
            </div>
            <div id="div1">
                <div>xx</div>
            </div>
        </div>
    </body>
</html>