On Apr 19, 2014, at 4:19 PM, Tim Dawson <t...@ramasaig.com> wrote: > On 19/04/2014 15:00, Tedd Sperling wrote: >> <I don't understand your statement "Obviously the em value has to be reduced >> as the font-size >> increases, to get the same pixel equivalent."> > Given that my original margin/padding around an <h1> with font-size 250% was > in pixels, when I converted at 1 em = 16 px the new margin/padding sizes were > 2.5 times too high. So conversion for <h1> has to be 1 em = 40px to get the > same on screen appearance. If that's wrong I haven't understood ems at all.
That sounds confusing. I just set my <h?> to whatever size I want knowing that 1em is equal (in most cases) to 16 pixels. No need for percentages in setting font sizes. Cheers, tedd _______________ tedd sperling t...@sperling.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/
