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
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