# Overlapping Lines with in a Cell

**URL:** <https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/overlapping-lines-with-in-a-cell/9663>\
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**Created:** [June 19, 2021, 9:51am UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/overlapping-lines-with-in-a-cell/9663 "2021-06-19T09:51:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![sridharar](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/discourse.jupyter.org/sridharar/32/4642_2.png) [@sridharar](https://discourse.jupyter.org/u/sridharar)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2021, 9:51am UTC](https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/overlapping-lines-with-in-a-cell/9663/1 "2021-06-19T09:51:06Z")

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For some reason in the past few days, lines within a Jupyter/iPython call are cutting into each other.

for example, in case of the above two lines, the “cutting into…” would be occluding the bottom half of “For some reason” line ☹

Do not know the cause of it. Looks like line spacing is too low.  
All suggestions are pointing to setting the line-height in CSS.  
But it does not seem to have any effect.

I am updating

C:\Users\arsre.jupyter\custom\custom.css

The changes to things in the file are having effect, and so I know I am touching the right .css file

#ipython\_notebook::before{  
content:“Welcome to Sri Jupyter”;  
font-family: Verdana;  
font-weight: 700;  
color: red;  
}

–

I have tried playing with line-height with the following css with no luck.  
What is the correct CSS elem and property to set? to get right spacing between displayed lines?

div.text\_cell\_render {  
font-family: lato;  
font-size: 36pt;  
line-height: 145%; /\* added for some line spacing of text. \*/

}

div.text\_cell\_render code{  
font-family: Monaco;  
font-size: 24pt;  
line-height: 145%; /\* added for some line spacing of text. \*/

}

Thanks Sri.