Posted by Chaddy2222 on 05/30/07 04:11

On May 30, 12:49 pm, Maxx Pollare <useless...@dragonfur.ca> wrote:
> I'm in the process of creating some new CSS for my site (same as email)
> and wanted to try something other then pixles for everything...
>
> Unfortunately I couldn't get Google to give me a simple page that gives
> me a relationship between Em and Pixels, as in "What the hell is an Em,
> and how big is it in pixels?". So far I've scraped the experimental CSS
> layouts twice because I can't things to work right with Em...
>
> I am still learning all this CSS stuff, and for now most of my HTML is
> either written in Notepad+ (XP) or gEdit (Ubuntu). I plan on learing
> PHP next, once I've pick up some good books on it, and after I'm
> finishing this HTML 4.01/CSS 2.1 stuff...
>
> Note: I do not care about IE 5x or Netscape 4 until I reistall 98se on
> a junker box... Which will probally be never...
>
1em is equivalent to 100%. I hope that helps a bit. Working with CSS
is a different mind set to udeing the old tables for layout, although
tables are easier for some things, mainly laying out for and other
items that you need in a grid type structure.
Use "%" if it's easier to work with.
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Regards Chad. http://freewebdesign.awardspace.biz

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