I believe the size of EM is the default size assigned by the browser, thus
if the browsers default font size is 12px then 1em is 12px.
Or if you set the
body
{
font-size: 12px;
}
and
p
{
font-size: 1.5em;
}
The size would be 18px.
Somebody correct me if I am wrong, but this is how I understand it works.
Taco Fleur - Pacific Fox
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> Subject: [WSG] 'em' versus '%'
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>
> Hi
>
> I was wondering about the use of em's to determin your font
> size. What is the difference between using em's or
> percentages? Percentages work fine for me but W3C seem to be
> very enthousiastic about
> using em's.
> And another thing i can't figure out is this: what is the
> size of 1em?
> Is it the width of the letter 'm' of a font?
>
> Wybe
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