Ems are actually standard units that are based on what font size your browser is set to (in some browsers), in combination with the "font-size" property in your CSS.
While this may correspond to the actual width of an "m" in a font, any such correspondence is merely coincidental -- the font type has nothing to do with the unit "em" as it relates to CSS. I did whip up a page that shows a rough scale of ems for different browser variables that might help you: http://www.themaninblue.com/writing/perspective/2004/05/27/ http://www.themaninblue.com/experiment/emWidths/ Regards, -- Cameron Adams W: www.themaninblue.com --- Nick Gleitzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday, June 21, 2004, at 05:11 PM, Michael > Andrews wrote: > > An 'em' is different from font to font - it refers > to the width of a > character, and the same character is a different > width in different > fonts. Ems are proportional measurements. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help *****************************************************
