2014-08-04 8:28, Karl DeSaulniers wrote:
Can you use "in" for inches in css or is that just jQuery that does that?
Yes, "in" has been a unit defined in CSS from the very beginning.
Current spec:
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/syndata.html#length-units
1in equals 2.54cm (exactly). This corresponds to the current definition
of the inch in metrology.
However, "in", "cm", and "mm" need not correspond to the physical unit
of inch and to the submultiples centimeter and millimeter of the
physical unit meter. Their mutual relationships are fixed, but their
relations to physical units vary, according to whether CSS units are
anchored to physical units or to the reference pixel. This is described
http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-values/#absolute-lengths
So if you set some dimension to 1in, it might be one inch, or it might
be somewhat different. However, it is the same as you get by setting the
dimension to 2.54cm.
Yucca
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