font sizing

[kevsyers]

When styling a site and using ems as a unit for measure for your fonts do you have to ever establish that 16px=1em in your style sheet? I know that most people’s browsers default to 16 but is there a way to make that true for everyone?

I feel kinda dumb for asking this. However, I’m running into an issue where some people are getting really large fonts in various browsers. Didn’t know if this could be the culprit.

Thanks guys

[jamygolden]

There isn’t a way that I know of. It will vary depending on what device you are viewing it in. It’s similar to percentage.

Why not use px?

[GreatPotato]

px aren’t re-sizeable in all browsers

[shagzdesign]

most reset.css do include

em {

font-size: 100%;

}

[kevsyers]

thanks. Yeah I chose em instead of px for the resizing issue. I’ll try out the bit of code that shagzdesign provided. I’ll let you know what I find out.

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