css ? text size

Ricoool · 10-25-2004, 07:42 PM

Anyone know

in css if you set body,th,td to 1 em, will it just adapt the browsers default and then you can use something like 1.8 or 0.9em in elements

or do you have to set a specific size like 12pt for body,th,td or html and then use ems for the rest

and do browsers render this the same way

???

Ricoool · 10-25-2004, 09:25 PM

ups I mean set body ect. to 1em and the rest in %, not ems

evilregis · 10-25-2004, 09:31 PM

My own preference is to set the font size to 100% in the body declaration then use ems to set the heights in the rest of the document.

And no they don't render the same way. Different browsers/OSes have different default font sizes. And if you set your font sizes in px then you preclude anyone using IE from being able to scale the text should they find your default choice too small to read.

Ricoool · 10-25-2004, 09:45 PM

I know about the diff. font size, specially on the mac.

just tryed it on a pc with IE, FireFox and Opera, and I dont see a difference, if I set body to 1em or 100%, and I can change the text size in the browser,

so I guess that on a pc, setting the body to 1em, the browsers default = 1em ???

seonewbee · 10-26-2004, 04:50 PM

Why don't you set the body to say 12pt and then make the rest a percentage of that, Or use all in PT sizes?

Nick W · 10-26-2004, 05:08 PM

Quote:

ups I mean set body ect. to 1em and the rest in %, not ems

yes. however, you're better off sticking to one unit type just to be certain.

>>12pt

Ack ack ack! - unclean, unclean!

pt's are a print unit.... use em's or % for best effect and usability on a web page and use pt's for print styles