px vs em revisited
px vs em revisited
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I've always used ems for font size, the finest way to do it is to set
body {font-size : 62.5% }
then
1em ~ 10px.
so
1.6em font size gets rendered as 16px.
Job done.Regardless, with reference to desktops & tablets, width is the important constant.... keeping sites for 1024 width has been the lowest common denominator for a good 8 years now, and thanks to apple probably will be for the foreseeable future.
As for vertical content, a good developer never explicitly sets the height, but perhaps uses a min-height instead.
Thus have never really had any difficutly with ems, except when nesting elements semanticly and having to change the font size.