If not compounding then it's the relation of the width in ems and the font-sizes. EMs used for things other than font-size (like width or margin) are relative to the font-size of *the element it is applied to*.
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 2:19 PM, John <j...@coffeeonmars.com> wrote: > I have a situation in which I modified my header logo and tag line to be > wrapped in an h1 tag and now it seems that my alignment of header elements > doesn’t respect the left edge they had before, and the value of em seems to > be way off…I increased my tag line to enable the line not to break by making > width 25ems (400 px) but that box now goes almost the width of the wrapper! > > I have divs with colored outlines..can anyone help me to see what is at work > here? > > link: http://www.coffeeonmars.com/170_su/client/ > > Thank you. > > John > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [css-d@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/ -- Tom Livingston | Senior Front-End Developer | Media Logic | ph: 518.456.3015x231 | fx: 518.456.4279 | mlinc.com ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@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/
