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Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 04/04/07 18:26
cluthz wrote:
> Further to earlier postings I'm trying to make a new website I'm doing as
> standards conforming as possible.
>
> However, I seem to be having many problems using the em measurement.
>
> The first annoyance in dreamweaver and using em's is that I can no longer
> free place my CSS layers like I can using pixels. I have to type in the
> values which when trying to design layout visually is a bit annoying.
That must be DW shortcoming.
>
> Secondly it just does not seem to take a lot of things into account. For
> example, I expand the width of a layer from 5em's to 7em's and it does not
> make any different.
It does in with webpage, if not in DW preview then again its DW problem.
>
> I do not have an example to show yet,
This has got to be the *most absolutely lamest and overused* excuse in
the NG. Of course you can make a small demo example! If you are building
a website you have hosting, right? If not, you're going to have to get
some. There is also free hosting you could get for examples...
> but before I do I thought I would just
> see if others know if Dreamweaver it geared up towards supporting em's
> effectively. It seems to make things easier to control if you stick to
> pixels?
Not if your user changes the font size where will pixels get you, eh?
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Take care,
Jonathan
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