Hi Johnny,

Thanks for spotting this and letting us know. I've written up a jira about it. 
http://issues.fluidproject.org/browse/FLUID-4698

Feel free to update it as needed.

Thanks
Justin

On 2012-04-13, at 11:48 AM, Johnny Taylor wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Quite awhile ago I came across an article by Jonathan Snook titled Font 
> sizing with rem <http://snook.ca/archives/html_and_css/font-size-with-rem>.  
> In it he outlined a process of sizing text on a page using a new CSS3 unit 
> called "rem's." It essentially uses the root, the font-size attached to the 
> html element, as a consistent reference for sizing text on a page that 
> employs it. Thus mitigating the em compounding issue (read his article for 
> more info). Pretty sweet.
> 
> Where this is relevant to this list is I half employed rem's in a project 
> recently that uses uiOptions. To resolve the compounding issue this was meant 
> to  solve. And the fact I half employed it prevented me from spotting the 
> issue sooner. But the problem is, and it's a significant issue, elements 
> using rem's to set their font size are immune to the text sizing options in 
> uiOptions. As rem's constantly refer to the root, the sizing effect of 
> uiOptions bypasses the inline styles uiOptions applies to the body!
> 
> Heads up!
> 
> Johnny
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