Likely I missed it when this topic was addressed.
I started coding HTML in 2009 and learned CSS later that year. In my first class the instructor favored elastic layouts using em with font-size and % for width and height of divs and other HTML elements. Then my next instructor favored doing everything in pixels in a fixed layout.
Today I’m seeing most HTML elements that are containers using elastic layout and other elements, like fonts, using fixed or elastic.
Is there a “universal rule” or strong opinions for when to use elastic attributes and when to used fixed attributes in laying out a page? Does it depend on the type of content? How does one avoid overlapping of content that occurs in elastic layout when viewed at higher zoom levels? thanks!
