On 2009/05/31 19:19 (GMT-0400) snak detek+0r composed: > Since I'm still trying to get my mind around this (and the w3 rules are > quite hard to parse IMO), I was just playing around with my own styles > when I noticed that the original base line-height value for this project > was set using %:
> font-size: 100%; > This is taken directly from Eric Meyer's reset stylesheet > http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/index.html > And I always assume he knows what he's doing. Since he's also not > changing the font size (100% pretty much means "say the same"), is this > rule simply included to dictate the way line-height is calculated on > descendants? Nothing to do with line-height, just insurance against IE bugs: http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=InternetExplorerWinBugs -- "A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man keeps himself under control." Proverbs 29:11 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.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/
