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Rick Rakin
6,531 PointsTo what decimal place?
What is the popular or recommended industry practice?
1 decimal place? ----> 83.7 2 decimal places? ---> 83.67 3 decimal places? ---> 83.667 more? ------------------> 83.666666667
3 Answers
James Barnett
39,199 PointsRichard Rakin - Well let's see how the math works out, take for example 14px as your target and 1980px as your context.
(14 / 1980) * 100 = 0.7070707070707071%, round that to 0.708%
Let's check our math and convert that back to pixels (0.708 / 100) * 1980 = 14.0184px
Since most browsers don't support fractional pixels, rounding to 3 decimals places, should do the trick.
Chase Lee
29,275 PointsI would try to be as specific as possible to get the exact measurement that you need.
Steven Schweibold
7,742 PointsFor CSS? Rounding to the nearest tenth of a percentage is what is recommended in the Treehouse course.