On Friday 10 September 2010 00:18, tedd wrote:
[snip]
> You can also use em's, such as:
>
> body
> {
> font-size: 1em;
> font-weight: normal;
> font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;
> }
>
> and then base everything else upon that, such as:
That isn't a good idea. If you specify the body font in em units, when a user
changes (in IE6 or IE7) from Medium to Larger, rather than getting an
expected small percentage in increase, IE exaggerates the size change. Hence,
comes the recommendation to use:
body { font-size: 100%; }
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/howtosizetextincss/
(2007-11-20)
HTH
--
Michael
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