On 18/01/2008 22:12, Tom Livingston wrote: >> Properly using ems to size things is precisely how you prevent layouts from >> breaking when actually used font size differs from the font size you used >> while designing. Also, when you design using the user's default as the base >> (e.g. body, td & p @ font-size: 100%), he won't need to change it. >> -- > > Most designers, and more importantly clients, don't want their body > copy at 16pt. So I am always setting a font-size on p's, etc. to .8 or > .85ems. Should someone who NEEDS larger text scale up these pages, the > layout may break. However, you are correct that proper use of ems > should prevent it from breaking in the first place.
With the layout I've got: fixed pixel width, evenly sized tabs spread across this pixel width, using ems for the width of each tab is not an option: as soon as the font is resized, or looked at on a machine set at over 96dpi, the tabs would wrap, breaking the layout. That is why I have used percentage widths and not ems, and why I'll have to live with Opera's rounding, unless I target it with display:table etc. Oddly, Opera displays a 0.2% margin correctly, but displays a 9.8% width as though it were 9%. -- http://antanova.blogspot.com ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
