Ok, gotcha! In my experience, em plays the same part as percent with regards to height, width, margins and padding etc. So I usually stick to percent on those. If I need a defined size, I just use px such as min-width or padding.
For my fonts, I use 100% body and em everywhere else with minor px settings for consistency on some input elements and such or on purpose. Makes for a good "responsive" setup I have found. Best, Karl DeSaulniers Design Drumm http://designdrumm.com > On Jul 21, 2016, at 2:01 AM, Philippe Wittenbergh <e...@l-c-n.com> wrote: > > > Oh, sure, that is inheritance at work. For any other property that accepts a > `<length>`, if it is expressed using the `em` unit, it will depend on the > computed value of the element itself. > > That means (to come back to the rem vs em topic) that the resulting value for > padding, border, margin, background-position, etc are depending on the > nesting inside the document tree if using `em` units. The `rem` unit avoids > that. > > Philippe > -- > Philippe Wittenbergh > http://l-c-n.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/
