Category line spacing for double lines

[jhbs]

Hi there, i am using 1.3.8 and have been trundling through all of the posts here about line spacing.

Now i can make each line spaced out by adding the line-height into my css, the only problem i get is that each line is spaced, and i have some categories that are on two lines.

How do i put a space between each category? (at the bottom) so there is clear separation?

[haredo]

Hi there, i am using 1.3.8 and have been trundling through all of the posts here about line spacing.

Now i can make each line spaced out by adding the line-height into my css, the only problem i get is that each line is spaced, and i have some categories that are on two lines.

How do i put a space between each category? (at the bottom) so there is clear separation?

JH,
Just add a blank category with no wording for the title and place the sort order just over the number of the category you want to leave a blank line under..

You can widen the width of the left column...
admin panel/ configuration/ layout settings

1. there are two places where you will see column width: left boxes and the other is column witdth: left
2. change both of them to match
3. default is 150
4. change both of them to 175

[jhbs]

yeah i need to keep the category box the same width, but the blank category, brilliant!

The only thing is that i just want to try and do it in the css / php as i dont want to confuse my client that will be using it! good fix for now!

[haredo]

Jh,
You are most welcome, glad I could zen your knowledge

[gjh42]

The reason that you can't affect the spacing other than line-height is that the category links are inline elements. If you add to your stylesheet

#categories a {display: block;}

the categories will each fill the width of the box (visible if you give them a background-color) and be able to have a defined top or bottom margin.
The inline elements are forced onto separate lines by a <br /> after each one, and making them block display will double the space. Unless you want this much spacing, you will want to edit /includes/templates/your_template/sideboxes/tpl_categories.php to eliminate the <br /> tags in a few places.