Manually adjusting line-height for optimum readability across a bunch of media queries is kind of a pain. With Molten Leading you can set a minimum width at which the adjustment starts, a maximum element width where it stops, and a minimum and maximum line height to adjust through.
All the work here is based on @Wilto’s Molten-Leading jQuery version of the plugin.
- Automatically adjust line-height based on element width for optimal readability.
- Works in all major desktop and mobile browsers, including IE 6 and up.
- Free to use in both commercial and non-commercial projects.
- Doesn’t require external JavaScript libraries.
- Weighs only 817 bytes minified and Gzip’ed.
- Supports multiple instances.
Following the steps below you should be able to get everything up and running.
- Link files:
<script src="moltenleading.js"></script>- Hook up the plugin:
<!-- Put this right before the </body> closing tag -->
<script>
moltenLeading("h1");
</script>- Customizable options:
moltenLeading("h1", {
minline: 1.2, // Minimum line height for the element
maxline: 1.8, // Maximum line height for the element
minwidth: 320, // Minimum element width where the adjustment starts
maxwidth: 1024 // Maximum element width where the adjustment stops
});- Tested to be working all the way down to IE6. side note: if you need to support IE6 & 7 you’re gonna have to use simple "tag selectors," since the plugin uses getElementsByTagName as a fallback if querySelector isn’t supported.
- Built Progressive Enhancement in mind, so the plugin will silently fail when a browser doesn’t support certain selector (only IE6 & 7).
- There’s a demo here.
- Full credits go to both Wilto who wrote the orinal plugin and to Tim Brown for the original idea.
1.02 (2014-06-21) - Adds minified version.
1.01 (2014-06-21) - Removes unnecessary code.
1.00 (2014-06-19) - First release.