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Posted by ironcorona on 05/07/06 20:52
Michael Laplante wrote:
> Of the various ways of stipulating font size -- px, em, ex, %, etc -- how do
> they all react to re-sizing? I.e. when the user re-sizes the fonts which
> method produces the most or least dramatic effect on the font? What "fomula"
> do browsers use to determine the change in text size applied when the user
> demands it? Lots of reading over the past two days hasn't revealed an answer
> to that question.
>
> Does that make sense?
A good rule of thumb is to use the %, em or ex. Since they refer to a
percentage of whatever the default (chosen by the user) is. As far as I
can remember increasing or decreasing the size in the browser is
standard among all the dimension types.
It was created so the user could increase or decrease the size of the
font, particularly where the author has taken it upon himself to
overrule the reader's defaults, and as such the all have the same "effect".
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ironcorona
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