---
title: lineSpacing
framework: appkit
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: appkit/nsparagraphstyle/linespacing
---

# lineSpacing

The distance in points between the bottom of one line fragment and the top of the next.

## Declaration

```swift
var lineSpacing: CGFloat { get }
```

## Discussion

Discussion This value is always nonnegative. The layout manager uses this value in the line fragment height.

## See Also

### Accessing style information

- [alignment](appkit/nsparagraphstyle/alignment.md)
- [NSTextAlignment](appkit/nstextalignment.md)
- [firstLineHeadIndent](appkit/nsparagraphstyle/firstlineheadindent.md)
- [headIndent](appkit/nsparagraphstyle/headindent.md)
- [tailIndent](appkit/nsparagraphstyle/tailindent.md)
- [lineHeightMultiple](appkit/nsparagraphstyle/lineheightmultiple.md)
- [maximumLineHeight](appkit/nsparagraphstyle/maximumlineheight.md)
- [minimumLineHeight](appkit/nsparagraphstyle/minimumlineheight.md)
- [paragraphSpacing](appkit/nsparagraphstyle/paragraphspacing.md)
- [paragraphSpacingBefore](appkit/nsparagraphstyle/paragraphspacingbefore.md)