How to fix avoid inline spacing on Squarespace

Steps for Squarespace

1. Go to Website → Pages, open the page, and click Edit on the text block with the inline spacing.
2. Highlight the text, open the text formatting toolbar, and look for any custom spacing set via the 'More' or Design options — remove it to revert to the site style.
3. For site-wide typography spacing, go to Design → Fonts and adjust Line Height / Letter Spacing there; this writes to the global stylesheet rather than inline styles.
4. If a Code Block or custom HTML injection is responsible, click Edit on that block, locate the `style=` attribute in the markup, move the spacing value to a `<style>` tag in the same block or to Design → Custom CSS, and remove the inline attribute.
5. Use Design → Custom CSS to add overriding class-based rules, then verify with axe.

<!-- BEFORE: inline spacing blocks user overrides -->
<p style="line-height: 1.4; letter-spacing: 0.05em;">Product description text</p>

<!-- AFTER: spacing lives in the stylesheet, users can override it -->
<p class="product-description">Product description text</p>

/* In your stylesheet */
.product-description {
  line-height: 1.4;
  letter-spacing: 0.05em;
}

What is avoid inline spacing?

Inline spacing refers to CSS properties like `line-height`, `letter-spacing`, `word-spacing`, and `margin-top`/`padding-top` (used to control text block spacing) that are written directly inside an HTML element's `style="…"` attribute rather than in a separate stylesheet. When these values are hard-coded inline, a user's browser or assistive-technology stylesheet cannot override them — even when that user has set their own spacing preferences to make text readable. WCAG 2.1 Success Criterion 1.4.12 ("Text Spacing") requires that users can adjust those four specific spacing properties without losing content or functionality.

Roughly 1 in 5 people have a disability that affects how they read text, and many of them rely on custom browser stylesheets or accessibility extensions that increase letter spacing, line height, or word spacing to make text legible. When your store hard-codes those values inline, their overrides are silently blocked, making your content unreadable for those shoppers — driving them directly to a competitor. Beyond lost sales, WCAG 2.1 Level AA compliance (which includes SC 1.4.12) is the baseline required by accessibility laws in the EU (EAA), UK (PSBAR), Canada (AODA), and increasingly enforced in the US under the ADA. Non-compliance exposes your business to legal complaints, demand letters, and lawsuits.

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