Sent by Plagiarist.com on 19 August 2002 19:07
At 10:27 AM 8/19/02 -0400, Edward Cossette wrote:
>With absolute sizing, it was easy to maintain legibility by having a
>font-size of 12px and a line-height of 18px or 20px.
>
>This would also be easy to pull off using % sizing.
>
>Is line-height a no go when relative sizing keywords?
You can still specify a % line-height even when using keywords for font
size. The renderer will just calculate the font size and make the
line-height that percentage of it - somewhat.
Unless line-height is integral to your content, it's hard to exactly
specify that height unless you're using pixels, because "large" may mean
something different in one browser over another. Also, is "large," for
instance, relative to the user settings in the browser? IOW, if I set IE
to a "medium" text size, then the "large" should be bigger than the default
(say, 1em) size.
Zeldman wrote a good piece on using pixels or nothing at all for ALA,
although I can't seem to find it in the archives now.
I'm really *really* trying to move towards not specifying a font size where
it's not absolutely necessary (in divs with a fixed height for a navigation
bar or something) but it's just so hard to let go...
-- Jough
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