I think he meant in the middle of his layout if he uses an em and
makes it bigger than the other text.
There is no problem with this if its a chunk of text but if you're
just using <em> as a single linesomewhere, then i'd say it was bad.
On 24 Sep 2005, at 23:12, Taco Fleur - Pacific Fox wrote:
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
an industry leader with commercial IT experience since 1994 .
http://www.pacificfox.com - Web Design and Development
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Sent: Sunday, 25 September 2005 8:02 AM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: [WSG] 'em' versus '%'
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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