[thelist] absolute vs relative font sizes

Volkan Özçelik volkan.ozcelik at gmail.com
Tue Jul 17 06:02:08 CDT 2007


Hi Simon,

On 7/17/07, Simon Watkins <handymanorama at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have a menu containing some markup similar to this:
> If I use:
>
> li{font-size: 12px;}
> li a{font-size: 10px;}
>
> then it works fine, but if for example I use:
>
> li{font-size: 1.2em;}
> li a{font-size: 0.8em;}
>
> then font sizes grow down the list.  Help?
>

Are you familiar with "bulletproof web design" concept.

http://www.simplebits.com/publications/bulletproof/

Dan, clearly explains how to overcome those kind of problems using
non-pseudo "real-life" examples.

The book is definitely worth having a look.

HTH,
-- 
Volkan Ozcelik
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