Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, ~davidLaakso wrote:
>
>
>> html {font-size: 100%;}
>> body {font-size: 1em;}
>> and set individual selectors in em.
>>
>
> Does that really summarize the collective wisdom? Logically, setting font
> size to 100% or 1em is equivalent to not setting it all, assuming that no
> other style sheet sets it. Due to browser bugs, they might matter. But is
> this really relevant nowadays?
>
> Moreover, why 100% in one rule and 1em in another? That sounds like
> invoking _both_ the bugs in % implementation _and_ the em bugs.
>
> As far as I know, there are fewer bugs with % than with em, though this is
> of course difficult to measure.
>
> So why not just set in % for anything that should be relatively sized, and
> not set html or body size at all?
>
>
Sounds good to me.
Since some people prefer to set fonts using em's (for whatever reason
they may have), the above method avoids a bug in IE when doing so
Moreover, some might say, this thread has nothing to do with with the
mission of this list.
B est,
~dL
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