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Authored by: lar3ry on Nov 16, '05 10:56:43AM

Technically, font sizes (height) shouldn't be specified in "em" units, since those units measure width. Instead, use "ex" to specify height. ("1.5ex" means 150% the height of the base font.)

CSS allows the use of silly units for any measurement, which gets confusing. The reason, though, is for uniformity: setting a margin top, bottom, width, and height all at "1.5em" would describe a uniform margin around a block.

[sigh]



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