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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	[quote]However..the box will resize if the box is sized in em but not in px..Right?[/quote] Listen carefully: an [b]em[/b] is a unit that is equal to the size of the letter [b]M[/b] in whatever font is being used. Therefore, if you use the unit of measure (u/m) [b]em[/b] to specify something's size, [i]the object will resize with the text - because the size of the letter [b]M[/b] changes![/i]. This is pretty straightforward stuff. [quote]Does anyone have any solutions to the text bleeding over the content of adjoining boxes when the text is made larger in View?[/quote] This is the way the gecko engine (used in Netscape, Mozilla, and Firefox) deals with the issue of text larger than it's parent element. IE resizes the parent element to fit. Simply two ways browsers deal with a problem, and no fix available to my knowledge. [quote]DL-44 stated 1em=16[/quote] No, I most certainly did not. I said that I think [b]IE[/b] uses 16px as its [b]default base[/b] for 1em. The two statements, as I have explained many times so far in this thread, are not the same. THERE IS NO DIRECT WAY TO CONVERT [b]EM >> PX[/b]. It's not possible. Period. And that's the whole point for [b]em[/b] existing in the first place. Loading...
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