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Lined paper

Written byPhuoc Nguyen
Category
Display
Created
17 Jan, 2020

HTML

index.html
<div class="lined-paper">...</div>

CSS

styles.css
.lined-paper {
/* Lined background */
background-image: linear-gradient(#d1d5db 1px, transparent 0px);
background-size: 100% 2em;

/*
Display the content on top of the lines.
The line height must be the same as the background size defined above
*/
background-position-y: 1.5rem;
line-height: 2em;
}

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