Is there a way to reduce the amount of white space?

[LiberalFighter]

Too much spacing between lines and paragraphs.

[Salviati]

1. Yes, this is my biggest issue with the redesign.

Too much real estate for too little information. I see there is an option for large fonts, I wish there was a compact option that would reduce that extra whitespace a lot.

Also, perhaps a smaller font option would be nice. If I set the browser zoom to 75% the overall page layout looks a lot better to me, but it's still thrown off by the (imo) excessive whitespace

[BootinUp]

2. Not that I know of, but you could try zoom out from browser menu.

Probably not going to make you happy.

[Owl]

3. Yes, way too much white empty space

[Ms. Toad]

4. Agree this is a need.

Now that virtually all screens are wide format, it reduces the height relative to the width - so the smaller the screen, the bigger the problem. So when space is added after each line, and the line spacing is greater than 1 line, it eats up the available height (i.e. reading space) very quickly. So I'm having to scroll even in the middle of relatively short posts.

I always have to change the settings each time I set up a new version of Word (to remove the default 8pt space after each line, and to reduce the default line spacing to 1 space). Drives me nuts - and here, I can't even go in and change the default settings.

[EarlG]

5. Well now... this is, um... interesting

I agree that there was something slightly off about the line spacing but it wasn't bothering me too much... however I just went and took a look at the code which controls the line spacing in posts and found a comment next to it which said:

line-height: 1.7em; /* TEST FOR READABILITY, remove this line to revert to 1.5em */



So I just changed that back to 1.5em and I think it looks better now. If you're not seeing it yet, it might take a few minutes for the change to sync across all the servers.

[Ms. Toad]

6. Thanks for making that change - it helps.

And 1.5 is accessibility compliant, so you shouldn't go below that.

But - you might check and see what you have set for the spacing following paragraphs.

Accessibility guidelines suggest 2 x font height - and there is considerably less white space between paragraphs on the pages that set out the guidelines than on the current version of DU. So I'm guessing you have it set at more than 2x

You could also reduce the margins at the top and bottom of hte text cells - the sides don't really bother me - that's just visual, but the 2 or more full blank lines at the top and bottom adds a lot of scrolling.

[EarlG]

8. I'll take a look at this tomorrow

and play around with it a bit. I'll have to check the paragraph spacing, but I agree that we could lose a little whitespace at the top and bottom of posts in Default/Night Mode.

[LiberalFighter]

7. How about less space between paragraphs??

[EarlG]

9. See post #8 above, thanks (nt)