How to add paddings in my body text?

[buigui]

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What I’m trying to do

I would kike to add a 5px top and bottom padding to my body text

Things I have tried

In my obsidian.css file, I have tried codes such as :

.cm-s-obsidian {
padding-top: 5px;
padding-bottom: 5px
}

or

.cm-s-obsidian {
padding: 5px 0 5px 0;
}

Both above codes don’t work.
Yet below code works :

.cm-s-obsidian {
font-size: 18px;
			}

Does anyone understand why or how I could make it ?
Thank you

[ariehen]

I think you may be looking for .cm-line in the editor (source mode and Live Preview). Have a look here to see if it seems similar: Can't get custom CSS to work - #15 by adrienneteicher

Live Preview with the adjustment:

Adjusting .cm-line will affect spacing in lists, code blocks, and callouts as well, so you may want to exclude those.

Adding a part to take care of Reading view (the top section), you could try something like this to see if it works:

.markdown-preview-view br {
    content: '';
    display: block;
    margin-block: 5px;
}

.markdown-source-view .cm-line:not(.HyperMD-list-line, .HyperMD-codeblock, .HyperMD-callout) {
    padding-block: 5px;
}

Live Preview before:

Live Preview after:

[buigui]

@ariehen

.markdown-preview-view br {
    content: '';
    display: block;
    margin-block: 5px;
}

.markdown-source-view .cm-line:not(.HyperMD-list-line, .HyperMD-codeblock, .HyperMD-callout) {
    padding-block: 5px;
}

Great, it works and helped me a lot.
Thank you so much