One of the problems with using “em” as font sizes is that they cascade, so you are forever writing rules that select nested elements to reset them back to 1em; CSS3 now has rem (“root em”) to prevent that issue. Just declare a px fallback and you can use it today. Snook shows us they way.
Font Sizing with REM
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