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CSS

Posted by Adrian Soley
Adrian Soley
Courses Plus Student 822 Points

Hello, can you please point me to some documentation about root em, I feel a bit confused about how that works.

I feel a bit confused how the rem works in bootstrap, mostly for setting paddings and margins of object. I will also appreciate if you can explain the perspective of design astethics and why they stick to this rule.

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
243,656 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
243,656 Points

The rem unit is the same as the em unit, it just always uses the font-size of the root element as its basis.

This just means that several layers down into the document, you can rely on rem to be relative to the root font size even if the font size has been changed for your element or a parent element that the size would be inherited from.