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Re: Text spacing for labels

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Mar 27, 2020 8:17PM

On 28/03/2020 00:55, Ajay Sharma wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We are using a custom CSS to override the text spacing to the units
> mentioned in this success criteria. It works fine for the chunk of
> text present in paragraphs and individual lines, but it is breaking
> the design for the labels, for example, on buttons, the label floats
> out of the boundary of the button.
>
> So, looking for thoughts on couple of points, first, is this success
> criteria applicable to labels? if yes, is there any good practice to
> handle this?

I believe you're misunderstanding the SC. It doesn't say YOU as a
developer have to set those text spacing styles. It says that when a
USER does it (through whatever means they have, such as their own
bookmarklet, custom settings in their browser, greasemonkey script, etc)
that things don't break (overlap, stop working, get cut off).

P
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