On 06/06/14 04:42 (GMT-0400) Bernat Lleonart apparently typed: > On 6/14/06, Alastair Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Bernat Lleonart wrote: >> > I am creating a layout based in em's.... the box >> > is 100px wide in FF, but it is 99px wide in IE. >> Only 1px difference? I'd expect that much from using percentages to do >> the page width! That could easily be rounding error. > I have found that, as you said, it might be a rounding error, the > problem comes from the text-size declaration in the body. I have tried > setting it to 100%, and then, in order to have a 100px wide box, I do > this: > body { > font-size: 100%; > } > #box { > font-size: 1em; > width: 6.25em; /* 100/16 */ > background: gray; > } > That works correctly in both browsers. Nick Fitzsimons explained why less than a month ago: http://lists.css-discuss.org/mailman/private/css-d/2006-May/064598.html No doubt Rutter was unaware of the issue when he wrote his infamous blog article http://www.clagnut.com/blog/348/ . -- "All have sinned & fall short of the glory of God." Romans 3:23 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/