Re: [css-d] FireFox issues displaying height of div

2014-07-25 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
Le 26 juil. 2014 à 04:13, Richard Wendrock Forum a écrit : > Does anyone know of an issue with FireFox not displaying the height of a div > properly? > > The column on the right with the blue background appears correct in IE and > Chrome. For some reason the column does not extend below the li

Re: [css-d] why are ems rendering large?

2014-07-25 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
I usually go px on the body and % everywhere else. Then when doing media queries, most the time all I have to adjust is the body px size and everything else sizes with it correctly. There is always some that are a little off, so then I go an adjust the % for just that one element for just that m

Re: [css-d] why are ems rendering large?

2014-07-25 Thread Eric
Yep this is what I have done for a long time. The support for the REM unit is now pretty much universal in modern UAs, except for bugs (one of which I found and reported on pre-IE11). And, in that case the REM unit was only being ignored for font-size. If you have to support ancient UAs than use

Re: [css-d] FireFox issues displaying height of div

2014-07-25 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
On Fri, 25 Jul 2014, Richard Wendrock Forum wrote: Does anyone know of an issue with FireFox not displaying the height of a div properly? The column on the right with the blue background appears correct in IE and Chrome. For some reason the column does not extend below the link. http://advres.t

Re: [css-d] FireFox issues displaying height of div

2014-07-25 Thread Mike Manley
Richard Wendrock Forum wrote: Does anyone know of an issue with FireFox not displaying the height of a div properly? The column on the right with the blue background appears correct in IE and Chrome. For some reason the column does not extend below the link. http://advres.thehomepagestore.com/co

Re: [css-d] FireFox issues displaying height of div

2014-07-25 Thread David Laakso
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Richard Wendrock Forum < fo...@thehomepagestore.com> wrote: > Does anyone know of an issue with FireFox not displaying the height of a > div > properly? > > The column on the right with the blue background appears correct in IE and > Chrome. For some reason the col

[css-d] FireFox issues displaying height of div

2014-07-25 Thread Richard Wendrock Forum
Does anyone know of an issue with FireFox not displaying the height of a div properly? The column on the right with the blue background appears correct in IE and Chrome. For some reason the column does not extend below the link. http://advres.thehomepagestore.com/consulting_unconventional_resource

Re: [css-d] why are ems rendering large?

2014-07-25 Thread Richard Wendrock Forum
This is a handle chart. http://jerekdain.com/fontconversion.html -Original Message- From: css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org [mailto:css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org] On Behalf Of Crest Christopher Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2014 9:53 PM To: Tom Livingston Cc: Chris F.A. Johnson; CSS-Di

Re: [css-d] why are ems rendering large?

2014-07-25 Thread Tom Livingston
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jul 2014, Tom Livingston wrote: > >> Lack of rem support is easily taken care of with a fallback declaration >> using px: >> >> Font-size:16px; >> Font-size:1rem; > > >Better still, using em or %: > > font-size: 100%; > fo

Re: [css-d] why are ems rendering large?

2014-07-25 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
On Fri, 25 Jul 2014, Tom Livingston wrote: Lack of rem support is easily taken care of with a fallback declaration using px: Font-size:16px; Font-size:1rem; Better still, using em or %: font-size: 100%; font-size: 1rem; This allows MOST browsers to use a relative font unit - honoring a

Re: [css-d] why are ems rendering large?

2014-07-25 Thread Tom Livingston
Lack of rem support is easily taken care of with a fallback declaration using px: Font-size:16px; Font-size:1rem; This allows MOST browsers to use a relative font unit - honoring a users preference for font size - without the compounding issues (and any other) of the em. -- Tom Livingston |

Re: [css-d] why are ems rendering large?

2014-07-25 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
On Jul 25, 2014, at 6:24 AM, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: > > Le 25 juil. 2014 à 20:06, Karl DeSaulniers a écrit : > >> Just made reference real quick to rems being the one based on the body only. > > No. > rems are not – repeat not – based on the font-size on body! They are based on > the f

Re: [css-d] why are ems rendering large?

2014-07-25 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
Le 25 juil. 2014 à 20:06, Karl DeSaulniers a écrit : > Just made reference real quick to rems being the one based on the body only. No. rems are not – repeat not – based on the font-size on body! They are based on the font-size of the root element, as I note earlier in this thread. The root e

Re: [css-d] why are ems rendering large?

2014-07-25 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
On Jul 25, 2014, at 6:02 AM, "Mike & Martha" wrote: > > > -- Original Message -- > From: "Karl DeSaulniers" > To: "CSS-Discuss Discuss" > Sent: 7/25/2014 4:59:48 AM > Subject: Re: [css-d] why are ems rendering large? > >> Actually, I believe ems are based on the prior font-size of th

Re: [css-d] why are ems rendering large?

2014-07-25 Thread Mike & Martha
-- Original Message -- From: "Karl DeSaulniers" To: "CSS-Discuss Discuss" Sent: 7/25/2014 4:59:48 AM Subject: Re: [css-d] why are ems rendering large? Actually, I believe ems are based on the prior font-size of the element in which its contained. rems are based on body. For example,

Re: [css-d] why are ems rendering large?

2014-07-25 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
Actually, I believe ems are based on the prior font-size of the element in which its contained. rems are based on body. For example, If you have a div in the body with no font-size set and a span inside that div with font-size set to 120% then it will be 120% of the body font-size. However, if t

Re: [css-d] why are ems rendering large?

2014-07-25 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
2014-07-25 9:06, John wrote: Is there a way to tell the browser…*any* browser: 1em = 16px and that’s that? No. Or is body { font-size:100%; } —with the underlying hope and assumption that 100% is understood to mean 16px and from there the leap that 1em equals the 16pixels — all we