[thelist] CSS preview in Dreamweaver

Thu Feb 28 16:00:00 CST 2002

Mark Howells wrote:

> 3. Be careful about setting font sizes using em in the example above. In
> browsers where inheritance odes work correctly, a <p> inside a <td>
> inside a <body>, all defined with 0.8em font size, will end up at 0.8 x
> 0.8 x 0.8. If your <body> text is at the equivalent of 12px, the inner
> <p> will be at 7.7px--a bit small.

Re using EM for type sizing, isn't it better to use PX or PT as a general
rule? That was my impression at least.