[thelist] CSS question

Steve Maxey smaxey at bcr.com
Mon Mar 20 13:47:23 2000


At 05:19 PM 3/19/00 +00-05, aardvark wrote:

>2. the 'em' is probably the best unit you can use -- except for one thing, 
>support... trying to get
>the current generation of browsers to handle it right is a bitch... but i 
>agree with you that 'em' is
>good... percentage also introduces problems for me, so i can't really 
>comment too much on
>that...

I've never had any problems with percentage, as long as I remember to 
define subitems contextually. In other words, If I define UL as 
{font-size:90%}, I make sure to define UL UL as {font-size:100%}. Otherwise 
you have each new nested level getting smaller and smaller.

--Steve