[thelist] Friday hlp! A reasonable scaled progression for

Jeff Howden jeff at jeffhowden.com
Sat Oct 18 03:57:24 CDT 2003


diane,

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> From: Diane Soini
>
> I'd be really careful with font-sizes that are percent
> or relative units (0.5em etc.) If you have nested
> tables or other containers your fonts will be all
> different sizes. They'll get smaller and smaller the
> further into your nesting you go.
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that's why you never assign a non-100% font-size to anything that can be
nested.  you only assign non-100% font-size values to things like <body>,
<h1>-<h6>, <small>, and id'ed elements and/or the tags/classes contained
within that id'ed element. (since an id can't/shouldn't be used more than
once in a document).

percentages really aren't that difficult to use once you figure them out.
they certainly have alot less issues than using things like ems, keywords,
etc.

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> [...] But I like this one [keywords] anyway because it's
> easier for users to resize fonts if they need to.
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um, there's nothing easier or harder for the user when it comes to the
relative size units chosen.  they're either relative or they're not.

.jeff

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