On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 11:14 AM, AJ Putnam <[email protected]> wrote:
> Apologies. I should have followed up that I seem to have figured out the > problem and launched the site. > > http://irishsetdances.net > > It would be nice to know if I was right.. I had the lik size set to .8 em > and the main font size was also .8em. I *think* the link font-sizes were > going.8 of the .8 so I changed link font-size to 1em and that seemed to fix > the problem. > > Thanks. > > Amy P. > That would be correct. em is based off parent font size, so your order would have gone (rough example) Font size = 20px; Parent -> .8em -> 20*.8 -> 16 Link -> .8em -> 16*.8 -> ~12.8 Thus the urging you hear to set font size in html/body, so browsers "get it right" across the board. (Simplified argument). -- -Jack Timmons http://www.trotlc.com Twitter: @jorachim ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
