Kayla

What's proper nowadays when coding a website's text display, px or em (or even percents)? Seems to be em.. px is less flexible on all browsers. Is this correct?

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cowboy

em is based on the base font size (em is a printer typesetting term for the hieght and width of the letter M), similar to %, while px is a scaled constant.

It is my opinion that em is the most consistant and easiest to scale the entire site with only 1 font size change.

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Brandonnn

I agree.. "em" is the standard now.

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Mykal

My vote is 'em'

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MarkRH

I just converted my www.pelicar.info site from using frames to div containers and css. Ran into the whole Quirks vs Standards mode of rendering differences. I also changed the sizing of stuff to em. Anyway, I managed to achieve the same thing I had with frames... the left-side menu stays put when scrolling.

I did discover that if I make a TD element with a font-size of 0.80em, that if I put another table inside that table, it's TD element's font is again reduced by 20%. Fixed that by defining the size for TD TD to be 1.0em so it would keep the same size.

But, now my page will allow font-size changes within the browser.. wouldn't before. Still won't zoom the page in or out though... hopefully it does look screwed up in other browsers. I should install Firefox and Opera I suppose..

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jordanriane

I vary between using pt and em for font sizes, line-heights.. But I'll use pixels when I want to specify for width's and heights if I'm not dealing with a fluid deisgn.

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I like em's because it's possible to do your entire layout based on them.