Goulven, I re-read my message and I can see how confusing it is. I want to know how keep the baseline rhythm of a web page (1) when adding horizontal space, margins or padding, to block level elements and (2) whether images should be sized in multiples of 1.5em for the same reason.
On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Goulven CHAMPENOIS <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi there, > > I didn't really get your point, let me see if I got your question right... > > Are you trying to add vertical margins between elements without disrupting > the baseline rhythm? > Or wondering the effect of pixel-based margins combined with em-based > settings in blueprint typography? > > > > On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 7:03 PM, weby <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> List, >> >> Hello. As a blue print newbie. I am trying understand how to set >> margins to work with blueprint. In reading over the css file that >> comes with blueprint I noticed that the body is built on a 1.5 line >> height. I assume this is in ems and is large enough to allow for >> varying default font sizes of browsers. Am I right so far? >> >> Not to stray to far from my post but this reminded me that I also >> noticed no top margins for paragraphs. I assumed this is not necessary >> when one paragraph follows another. >> >> Back to the subject at hand, so when adding margins, or images, I also >> assumed I need to set them in multiples of 1.5. Is this also correct? >> If so, this could be rather larger depending on the design, especially >> for those spaces just below headers. >> >> Of course this is assuming that I have not changed the font size of >> the div or paragraph in question. Right now I am using blue print's >> typography unchanged. >> >> But, if the font size is changed and I want to add margins, would I >> need to calculate those margin insted of using a multiple of 1.5? Is >> this correct? >> >> I ask because I got this understanding from reading Richard Rutter's >> article "Compose to a Vertical Rhythm" at >> http://24ways.org/2006/compose-to-a-vertical-rhythm. >> It was a link in one of the articles under the Tutorials Heading at >> github. >> >> >> norma >> > > > > -- > Goulven Champenois > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Blueprint CSS" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/blueprintcss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
