Sure you can use em, ex, % for relative & fluid layouts all you like. The best reason to do so if you want your site to expand and contract nicely along with the font size.
Just speaking off the top of my head here... The size of an em is derived from the text size of the container. I haven't actually calculated it but say if your font-size is 12px then an em is about the same, or at least proportional to it. By contrast an ex is smaller, but still proportional to the font size of the parent container. For ems then, in most cases, you ought to only need to use em values up to ( monitor size / font size ), eg 1600/12 = 133em... the one issue is people with multiple monitors who see if your site breaks stretching it well beyond 1600px wide (I know a guy with two Apple 30" cinema displays ~ 5120x1600 desktop). HTH, Geoff ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
