All Entries Tagged With: "ex"
Unitless Line Heights in CSS
One of my fellow designers asked me the other day, what are unitless line-heights and how do they work. And I remembered what Eric Meyer’s post on ‘Unitless line-heights’. I was new to designing then and used the old methods of specifying line height in pixels or percentages. Well that was until I came across [...]
Minal | Jun 16, 2009 | Comments 2
Difference between 'em' and 'ex' units
‘em’ and ‘ex’ units are both relative units; viz. they are measured in relation to other values. In CSS, one ‘em’ is defined to be the value of font-size of a given element. For example, if the font-size of a paragraph element is 12 pixels then 1em = 12 px. But as I already mentioned [...]
Minal | Apr 25, 2009 | Comments 3
