On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:03:15 -0700 Came this utterance formulated by Kenny Leu to my mailbox:
> 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. > But this is dependant on at least one other factor. Fonts on the user computers, different fonts have different letter widths. So the sentence width may vary with regard to a set EM container width. > PERCENT: > - always relative to containing block (could be parent font as well) > - this means that containing blocks can get very crowded. > -- Michael All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416 ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
