On 16-Feb-07, at 11:11 AM, Craig wrote: > On 2/16/07, jeffrey morin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> i remember reading somewhere that you can control font size easier if >> you >> set 1em = 65%? i don't recall exactly what the number was and i can't >> find >> where i read it. i want to say it was andy budd but does anyone know >> what i >> am talking about and why that is useful? any help would be great > > You're looking for 62.5%. Based on the cross-browser de-facto standard > of 16px for "medium", a base font-size of 62.5% will give you an em of > 10px, a nice round number. This means 1em = 10px, 1.4em = 13px, 32em = > 320px, and so on. It's also extremely useful for elastic layouts.
I've heard this before, and I witness the results daily since this idea seems to have caught on widely with eCommerce template people. But why is it important that you get a nice round number of pixels? Who cares? And why would you want the base font size to be less than 2/3 of the medium size? I can attest that text at 62.5% is unreadably small on my 1280 x 960 resolution display. And isn't that the important issue? If you leave an em as an em, we can both read the text. If you force the em to be whatever size works on YOUR monitor, it might not work on mine. Rob Stevenson "What do you think of Western Civilization?" - reporter "I think it would be a good idea!" - Mohandas K. Gandhi ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
