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When to rem/em #22

Open mhulse opened 8 years ago

mhulse commented 8 years ago

Size in em if the property scales according to it’s font-size.
Size everything else in rem.

To put it another way:

Size in EM if you want the property to scale according to its font-size.
Size in REM for everything else.

mhulse commented 7 years ago

Great read:

https://hackernoon.com/rems-and-ems-and-why-you-probably-dont-need-them-664b9ce1e09f

PX do sound more appealing. I keep going back and forth over time here. Latest project, I'm kinda hating on the rem root font thing and the imprecise nature of rem/em for precision alignment, etc.

Looking forward to container-based media queries (element queries).