Sizes In Webdesign: Em Vs. Px - and why em is better

Pages: 1, 2
free web hosting
Free Web Hosting > Computers & Tech > How-To's and Tutorials > Websites and Web Designing

Sizes In Webdesign: Em Vs. Px - and why em is better

iGuest
Great information on this web page. Thanks !

Reply

FirefoxRocks
I've read this informative tutorial throughly and found that this is a valuable concept to designing in CSS. In addition to font sizes, margins and paddings can also be specified in the relative unit of em, and more rarely width, height, border and positioning selectors. With regards to using %, it actually takes the font size of the parent element if you are specifying the value as a font size.

As for specifying the page width to be 780px to accomodate the screen resolution of 800*600, I think that the idea is ok because most users screen resolutions are at 1024*768 up to 1280*1024. The layout shouldn't look too small in either of those layouts, with a width of 780px. And visually impaired users would probably set the screen to 800*600, which is perfect for the page. However the use of percents to set <body> width is still recommended as it is called "liquid design".

Thanks for writing this informative post, I'll be sure to use these techniques when updating my CSS.

Reply

iGuest
Em vs px in modern browsers?
Sizes In Webdesign: Em Vs. Px

Hi there! Great article!

But what about the latest browser editions such as FF3 which have some kind of new technique that zooms pages like "images" and where you can build your entire layout using px units and still have your page zoom proportionally?

Is the difference between ems and pxs still an issue?

Cheers!

-question by EmFan

Reply

iGuest
Em vs px in modern browsers?
Sizes In Webdesign: Em Vs. Px

Hi there! Great article!

But what about the latest browser editions such as FF3 which have some kind of new technique that zooms pages like "images" and where you can build your entire layout using px units and still have your page zoom proportionally?

Is the difference between ems and pxs still an issue?

Cheers!

-reply by EmFan

Reply

Sensational
QUOTE(iGuest-EmFan @ Jul 3 2008, 12:20 AM) *
Em vs px in modern browsers?

Sizes In Webdesign: Em Vs. Px
Hi there! Great article!

But what about the latest browser editions such as FF3 which have some kind of new technique that zooms pages like "images" and where you can build your entire layout using px units and still have your page zoom proportionally?

Is the difference between ems and pxs still an issue?

Cheers!

-reply by EmFan


im guessing with certain browsers it will still be an issue because some browsers still wont zoom proportionally with pxs.. but with FF3 it does zoom proportionally with pxs so there is no difference between ems and pxs.. so it just depends what browser the user is viewing the webpage in!

Reply


Got an Opinion! Express your Views! (no registration):-
Add your Reply/ Opinion/ Views/ Comments/ Suggestion/ Questions/ Queries etc.
Posts with decent grammar & English will be accepted and please refrain from profanities.
For asking a Question, We recommend you to sign-up (for free) so that you can track the topic easily.

Nature of your Post*: Opinion/ Reply/ Comments
Question/Query
Feedback to us.
       
Name   Email
Title/Question*

(Maximum characters: 10,000)
You have characters left.

Pages: 1, 2
Recent Queries:-
  1. sizes - 5.74 hr back. (1)
  2. px to em to percent - 7.56 hr back. (1)
  3. px em with links too small - 8.40 hr back. (1)
  4. em vs px css - 8.50 hr back. (1)
  5. css em vs. px - 9.83 hr back. (1)
  6. px to em - 10.37 hr back. (1)
  7. css difference between px em - 13.50 hr back. (1)
  8. html px vs em - 15.55 hr back. (1)
  9. html code font size what is the differnece between em and px - 26.16 hr back. (1)
  10. em vs pt vs px - 28.04 hr back. (1)
  11. em ex pt px - 30.56 hr back. (1)
  12. font size em vs px - 33.11 hr back. (1)
  13. css em vs px - 5.06 hr back. (3)
  14. firefox zoom em px line break - 39.12 hr back. (1)
Similar Topics

Keywords : sizes webdesign em px em


    Looking for sizes, webdesign, em, px, em

*RANDOM STUFF*





*SIMILAR VIDEOS*
Searching Video's for sizes, webdesign, em, px, em
advertisement




Sizes In Webdesign: Em Vs. Px - and why em is better



 

 

 

 

ADD REPLY / Got an Opinion! a humble request :-) RAPID SEARCH! Free Hosting [X]
Express your Opinions, Thoughts or Contribute your information that might help someone here.
Ask your Doubts & Queries to get answers.. "Together, We enlight each other!"
Register FREE for AD-FREE forum, Create your own topics, Ask Questions, track topics, setup subscriptions & notifications and Get a Free Website w/ Email and FTP.
500MB Space *No Ads*, CPanel, FTP, PHP, MySQL, EMails - 100% FREE