If I have a style:
body
{
font-size: 1em;
}
Is that any different than:
body
{
font-size: 100%;
}
Regards,
Peter Foti
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Peter Foti wrote: font-size: 1em;
Is that any different than:
font-size: 100%;
Technically they mean the same (just as 1m is the same as 100cm). In
practise, different browsers have different bugs relating to them.
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"Peter Foti" <pe****@systoli cnetworks.com> wrote: font-size: 1em;
vs. font-size: 100%;
for body.
By the specification, there is no difference, since for the font-size
property, both the em unit and percentages are relative to the font-size
of the enclosing element.
Browsers have some bugs and deficiencies for both, but on the average,
percentages are a little safer.
But what would be the point of setting font-size of body to 1em or to
100%? That would just tell the browser to use whatever it does anyway. If
you think there is a particular trick (maybe intended to overcome a
browser bug) involved, please explain.
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"Jukka K. Korpela" <jk******@cs.tu t.fi> wrote in message
news:Xn******** *************** ******@193.229. 0.31... But what would be the point of setting font-size of body to 1em or to
100%? That would just tell the browser to use whatever it does anyway. If
you think there is a particular trick (maybe intended to overcome a
browser bug) involved, please explain.
I read somewhere in this newsgroup that setting the font size to 100% takes
care of some IE 5.5 bugs.
Peter
Peter Foti wrote: "Jukka K. Korpela" <jk******@cs.tu t.fi> wrote in message
news:Xn******** *************** ******@193.229. 0.31... But what would be the point of setting font-size of body to 1em or to
100%? That would just tell the browser to use whatever it does anyway. If
you think there is a particular trick (maybe intended to overcome a
browser bug) involved, please explain.
I read somewhere in this newsgroup that setting the font size to 100% takes
care of some IE 5.5 bugs.
The bug in question is related to setting font sizes in em units and
affects multiple WinIE versions, not just 5.5. If you aren't using em
units for font-size, there is no real reason to set body text size.
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"kchayka" <kc*********@si hope.com> wrote in message
news:3f******** *************** @news.twtelecom .net... Peter Foti wrote:
"Jukka K. Korpela" <jk******@cs.tu t.fi> wrote in message
news:Xn******** *************** ******@193.229. 0.31... But what would be the point of setting font-size of body to 1em or to
100%? That would just tell the browser to use whatever it does anyway.
If you think there is a particular trick (maybe intended to overcome a
browser bug) involved, please explain.
I read somewhere in this newsgroup that setting the font size to 100%
takes care of some IE 5.5 bugs.
The bug in question is related to setting font sizes in em units and
affects multiple WinIE versions, not just 5.5. If you aren't using em
units for font-size, there is no real reason to set body text size.
So, for instance, if I wanted to set my <h1> elements to have a font size of
2em, then I *should* set the body to have a font size of 100%, correct?
Thanks,
Peter
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 13:23:49 -0500, "Peter Foti"
<pe****@systoli cnetworks.com> wrote: If I have a style:
body
{
font-size: 1em;
}
Is that any different than:
body
{
font-size: 100%;
}
They should be identical. And should also be identical to not defining
any font-size at all. And are identical in decent browsers.
But some (all? I'm not sure) versions of IE screw up if you subsequently
define other relative font sizes - it produces differing results for the
three cases.
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"Peter Foti" <pe****@systoli cnetworks.com> wrote: "kchayka" <kc*********@si hope.com> wrote in message
news:3f******* *************** *@news.twteleco m.net... Peter Foti wrote:
> "Jukka K. Korpela" <jk******@cs.tu t.fi> wrote in message
> news:Xn******** *************** ******@193.229. 0.31...
>> But what would be the point of setting font-size of body to 1em or to
>> 100%? That would just tell the browser to use whatever it does anyway.If >> you think there is a particular trick (maybe intended to overcome a
>> browser bug) involved, please explain.
>
> I read somewhere in this newsgroup that setting the font size to 100%takes > care of some IE 5.5 bugs.
The bug in question is related to setting font sizes in em units and
affects multiple WinIE versions, not just 5.5. If you aren't using em
units for font-size, there is no real reason to set body text size.
So, for instance, if I wanted to set my <h1> elements to have a font size of
2em, then I *should* set the body to have a font size of 100%, correct?
Not quite.
If you want your h1 to appear twice the user's chosen default, even
when they are using Windows IE and when they're chosen default is
something other than 'medium' then you either:
need to set body to 100% and h1 to 2em
or
set h1 to 200%.
If you have Windows IE handy you can see this effect on http://steve.pugh.net/test/test47.html (note that the comments about
Opera and percentage sizes don't apply to recent releases).
Steve
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Steve Pugh <st***@pugh.net > <http://steve.pugh.net/>
"Steve Pugh" <st***@pugh.net > wrote in message
news:df******** *************** *********@4ax.c om... If you want your h1 to appear twice the user's chosen default, even
when they are using Windows IE and when they're chosen default is
something other than 'medium' then you either:
need to set body to 100% and h1 to 2em
or
set h1 to 200%.
If you have Windows IE handy you can see this effect on
http://steve.pugh.net/test/test47.html (note that the comments about
Opera and percentage sizes don't apply to recent releases).
Fascinating! For the longest time I have been hearing that ems were the
best unit to use. It seems that is not so. I'll be switching to
percentages.
Thanks!
Peter
Peter Foti wrote:
I read somewhere in this newsgroup that setting the font size to
100% takes care of some IE 5.5 bugs.
And exposes the site to a new bug in NS4, so do hide it from that
browser if you use it.
--
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