2013-06-27 16:01, Tom Livingston wrote:
Whenever you use the em unit or the % unit on font-size, you need to take
into consideration that it is relative to the parent font size. This has
nothing to do with inheritance. Here you *prevent* <body> from inheriting
font size from its parent, <html>.
No snark here. Tell me what I am missing where 'preventing <body> from
inheriting font size from <html>' is a problem?
It could be a problem in some cases, but this wasn't the point here. The
point was that setting body { font: .8em/1.5 sans-serif; } prevents
inheritance, instead of being an example of inheritance.
What would the benefit
be? I see nothing to gain.
Benefit of what? You may wish to let the browser default font size apply
to <body>, or you may wish to set <body> font size relative to the
browser default font size, or you may wish to set it in physical units.
I don't see any reason to set anything for <html> in any of these cases.
Very theoretically, in the first two approaches, you might wish to set
html { font-size: 100% } to guard against other style sheets setting
font-size on <html>
Yucca
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