Re: [css-d] is use of rem bad?

2016-07-20 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
Yes? Same link you gave had this below what your were referencing. [quote] The exception is when they occur in the value of the font-size property itself, in which case they refer to the computed font metrics of the parent element (or the computed font metrics corresponding to the initial values

Re: [css-d] is use of rem bad?

2016-07-20 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
> On Jul 21, 2016, at 12:17 PM, Karl DeSaulniers wrote: > > That is incorrect I believe. FWIU Em is based off of the first parent element > to declare a 'px' based declaration of same type. no. http://www.w3.org/TR/css-values/#font-relative-lengths [quote] em unit Equal to the computed val

Re: [css-d] is use of rem bad?

2016-07-20 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
That is incorrect I believe. FWIU Em is based off of the first parent element to declare a 'px' based declaration of same type. font-size width padding etc.. Otherwise it is set by the body and default browser px size. Same with percent. You are correct however, you can't just blindly convert

Re: [css-d] is use of rem bad?

2016-07-20 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
> On Jul 21, 2016, at 2:05 AM, John J wrote: > > Working on my code, I decided to see what they CSS validator had to say > about it, and it threw out 154 errors, most of which were about rem as my > value of measure for things like padding, type, borders, margin. > > I am using rem on advice of

Re: [css-d] is use of rem bad?

2016-07-20 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
I would just convert to em and not rem and move on. Validator should be fine with em. If not, em can be converted to percent and do the same I believe. I usually use percent and em on fonts. Hth, Best, Karl Sent from losPhone > On Jul 20, 2016, at 12:05 PM, John J wrote: > > Working on my c

Re: [css-d] is use of rem bad?

2016-07-20 Thread Tom Livingston
On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 1:05 PM, John J wrote: > Working on my code, I decided to see what they CSS validator had to say > about it, and it threw out 154 errors, most of which were about rem as my > value of measure for things like padding, type, borders, margin. > > I am using rem on advice of a

[css-d] is use of rem bad?

2016-07-20 Thread John J
Working on my code, I decided to see what they CSS validator had to say about it, and it threw out 154 errors, most of which were about rem as my value of measure for things like padding, type, borders, margin. I am using rem on advice of a developer who said that a certain pinhead, un-named brows