Re: [WSG] Relative font sizes without relative dimension units

[Bill McAvinney]

What I'm looking for is a way to have a consistent em based measuring 
unit across all block elements in a site so that a width of say 10em 
will be the same  no matter what the font size of the text in that 
block is.

Here's a little demo using your example with each element given a 
left margin of 10em, and similar headers with my typical use of spans:
http://hurricane.mit.edu/erp_manuals/test.html

As you can see the way you're suggesting still gives an effective 
margin of 12em when the font size is 1.2em and 15em when the font 
size is 1.5em.

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Bill McAvinney
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Web Services
Administrative Computing, IS&T
617-258-6023
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