How to specify font properties using / convention?

Question

I am trying to modify the following code from this dabblet:

.ctrl {
  position: absolute;
  top: 50%; 
  left: 50%;
  font: 1.5em/1.13 Verdana, sans-serif;
  transition: .5s;
}

1.5em seems to refer to the font size and the position, top, and left attributes seem to center the item.

What does the /1.13 refer to?

this is NOT an ie7 hack, its the shorthand method for font-size/line-height font-family — Mark, May 31 '13 at 23:39

sscirrus · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-31T23:45:56.050

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/1.13 refers to the line-height.

This is how you specify font in order:

font-style font-variant font-weight font-size/line-height font-family

edited May 31 '13 at 23:45

answered May 31 '13 at 23:32

sscirrus

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