[thelist] em's , CSS, aol - etc

Lee kowalkowski lee.kowalkowski at googlemail.com
Tue Aug 1 11:26:02 CDT 2006


On 01/08/06, Bob Meetin <ontheroad at frii.com> wrote:
> I read one of the previous replies talking about a bug with fonts
> in EMs( http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=UsingEms ).  On my windows
> pc running IE6, my site and others I've developed using EMs are fine.

If the base font is specified in EMs in IE, it resizes more radically
than if you use percent.  (Smallest is rarely legible at all).

After you have declared your base (e.g. body) font size in percent,
you can use EMs for all subsequent font size declarations.

I'm sure this affects IE6 too.  If you always use the medium text size
in your browser (View -> Text Size), you'll not notice the difference.

-- 
LK



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