[thelist] css units
shawn allen
shawn at alterior.net
Fri Oct 25 15:06:01 CDT 2002
quoth John Snavely:
> What's the standards-friendly way of sizing fonts?
>
> em, ex or px or pt or "small"?
There's really no one "standards-friendly" way, it's more of an
accessibility issue specific to the site you're building. Briefly:
- keywords are scalable, but they don't offer much control.
- Percentages and em are more specific, and work well with eachother.
- ex doesn't get much love from UA's, so I'd advise against it.
- Stay away from px if you care about the majority of your audience
(IE/win users, again) being able to scale your text.
- Use pt (and in, cm, mm, and pc) only in print media stylesheets.
Check out (and contribute to!) the css-discuss wiki for more:
<http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=FontSize>
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