D'oh! I should've read that link above before posting...
To redeem myself: EM: - always relative to font size - fonts affect absolute widths of things set with EM! (e.g. could cause horizontal scroll) - however, relative widths are not affected. e.g. if a particular sentence fits all on one line, it will always fit on one line even if the font is changed to be very large. PERCENT: - always relative to containing block (could be parent font as well) - this means that containing blocks can get very crowded. On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 8:48 AM, Kenny Leu <kenny....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all! > > I'm a long-time stalker of this thread, first-time poster. :) > > I'm very curious about this question as well...it was always my > understanding that, analogously, em --> decimal & percent --> percent. Is > there a subtlety that I'm missing? > > Kenny > > > > > On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 7:31 AM, David Laakso < > da...@chelseacreekstudio.com> wrote: > >> Rob Emenecker wrote: >> > Hi all, >> > >> > I am looking for a few good web locations that explain and clarify the >> > differences between EMs and PERCENTS, and recommendations for using one >> or >> > the other. I do not want the W3C specification, I know where that is. I >> am >> > looking for practical information in the real world application of one >> > versus the other. >> > >> > Thanks! >> > >> > ...Rob >> > >> > >> > >> >> Why limit yourself to one or the other :-) ? Need of the moment >> determines structure-- pixel, em, or percent. And I suppose, if push >> came to shove, you could go for broke and employ the best advantages of >> pixel, em, and percent widths all within the same layout structure. >> Georg Sortun [1] seems to pull it off quite well. >> <http://www.gunlaug.no/contents/toc_7a.html> >> >> >> -- >> >> A thin red line and a salmon-color ampersand forthcoming. >> >> http://chelseacreekstudio.com/ >> >> ______________________________________________________________________ >> css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] >> 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/ >> > > ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] 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/
