Hi all! I'm a long-time stalker of this thread, first-time poster. :)
I'm very curious about this question as well...it was always my understanding that, analogously, em --> decimal & percent --> percent. Is there a subtlety that I'm missing? Kenny On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 7:31 AM, David Laakso <da...@chelseacreekstudio.com>wrote: > Rob Emenecker wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I am looking for a few good web locations that explain and clarify the > > differences between EMs and PERCENTS, and recommendations for using one > or > > the other. I do not want the W3C specification, I know where that is. I > am > > looking for practical information in the real world application of one > > versus the other. > > > > Thanks! > > > > ...Rob > > > > > > > > Why limit yourself to one or the other :-) ? Need of the moment > determines structure-- pixel, em, or percent. And I suppose, if push > came to shove, you could go for broke and employ the best advantages of > pixel, em, and percent widths all within the same layout structure. > Georg Sortun [1] seems to pull it off quite well. > <http://www.gunlaug.no/contents/toc_7a.html> > > > -- > > A thin red line and a salmon-color ampersand forthcoming. > > http://chelseacreekstudio.com/ > > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] > 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/ > ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] 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/
