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The following properties are inherited by all elements


 


<!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></title>
<style type="text/css">
body {
  font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif;
  font-size: 18px;
  
}

div {
  line-height: 2em;
}

p {
  letter-spacing: 0.8px;
  cursor: pointer;
}

em {
  font-style: italic;
}

span {
  font-style: normal;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>

<div> 

<p> 
<em> 
<span> 
inherits font from its ancestor, <code>&lt;body&gt;</code>. <br /> 
inherits line-height from its ancestor, <code>&lt;div&gt;</code>. <br /> 
inherits letter-spacing from its ancestor, <code>&lt;p&gt;</code>. <br /> 
inherits italics from its ancestor, <code>&lt;em&gt;</code>, 
</span> 
</em> 
</p> 
</div> 


</body> 
</html>