Sent by Felix Miata on 14 June 2006 13:01
On 06/06/14 04:42 (GMT-0400) Bernat Lleonart apparently typed:
> On 6/14/06, Alastair Campbell [EMAIL-REMOVED]> wrote:
>> Bernat Lleonart wrote:
>> > I am creating a layout based in em's.... the box
>> > is 100px wide in FF, but it is 99px wide in IE.
>> Only 1px difference? I'd expect that much from using percentages to do
>> the page width! That could easily be rounding error.
> I have found that, as you said, it might be a rounding error, the
> problem comes from the text-size declaration in the body. I have tried
> setting it to 100%, and then, in order to have a 100px wide box, I do
> this:
> body {
> font-size: 100%;
> }
> #box {
> font-size: 1em;
> width: 6.25em; /* 100/16 */
> background: gray;
> }
> That works correctly in both browsers.
Nick Fitzsimons explained why less than a month ago:
http://lists.css-discuss.org/mailman/private/css-d/2006-May/064598.html
No doubt Rutter was unaware of the issue when he wrote his infamous blog
article http://www.clagnut.com/blog/348/ .
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