Unitless line height in CSS

For a couple of years now I keep stressing the fact that line-height works best when you don’t provide a unit. And I am not saying this for no reason.

As neatly explained by Eric Meyer the unitless line height doesn’t enforce it’s computed size onto the inheriting element.

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