Caio wrote on Saturday, May 3, 2003 at 5:33:49 PM: > (but don't go around setting a max-width of 40em, it doesn't work > like that. em is the width of the widest char. Typically 'M', > occasionally 'W'.) 1em is equal to the font-size, which is unrelated to the width of any characters. For example, if the current font-size is 14px, 40em is equal to 560px, no matter the width of the M or W (if the font even contains those two characters). <http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/syndata.html#value-def-length> -- John Lewis ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL-REMOVED]] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/