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CSS

Posted by Adam Castillo
Adam Castillo
7,585 Points

EM Units

Just trying to clarify something real quick. Are the parent elements of EM units based off of the value in the Declaration. Thank you for your help.

4 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,644 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,644 Points

You should know if you're building your own pages. But if you want to analyze some existing page, you can display the DOM tree and/or the CSS style inheritance using the Dev Tools. The ones built in to Chrome are quite nice.

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,644 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,644 Points

I'm unsure of the wording of your question, but...

Em units are based on the font size of the parent element. On the other hand, rem units are based on the font size of the root (HTML) element.

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Adam Castillo
Adam Castillo
7,585 Points
Adam Castillo
Adam Castillo
7,585 Points

Sorry about my wording man. This will make the question easier. How do you know identify the parent element of EM units?

Adam Castillo
Adam Castillo
7,585 Points
Adam Castillo
Adam Castillo
7,585 Points

Ok cool. Thank you very much for your help. This newbie greatly appreciates it.