On Apr 8, 2014, at 11:02 PM, Crest Christopher <crestchristop...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Tim Climis wrote: >> >> On Tuesday, April 08, 2014 10:24:14 PM Crest Christopher wrote: >> >> > Em are the best solution for font-sizes, from everything that I know. >> >> > Pixels I don't know if pixels should be used at all and percentages from >> >> > what I know are relative to the browser size, is this correct or am I >> >> > mis-understanding something. >> >> For box sizing, percentages are based on browser size. But fonts don't work >> like box-sizing. for fonts, 100% = 1em. 120% = 1.2em. 90% = .9em, etc. So >> which one you use is up to personal preference. >> > > How did you calculate 100% = 1em ? > Mostly everyone used, including myself pixels for box sizing, I hope you were > referring to creating a DIV as in box sizing ? What do you mean by > "percentages are based on browser size" ? > >> (although, it would be kind of fun if 100% resulted in letters hundreds of >> pixels high...) >> >> ---Tim > I think percentages are based on their parents size and not the browser. Correct me if I am wrong. Best, Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@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/
