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mk2phil · 01-04-2008, 05:05

I've recently been looking into stylesheet resetting and have come across many instances of the font declaration having both a percentage and em declaration like shown:

font: 75%/1.4em "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;

I haven't seen the 75%/1.4em syntax before - what does it mean?

Usually I'll set my body font-size to 62.5% and then use my <p> tags with a 1.1em declarations to easily determine pixel size.

Cheers

01-04-2008, 05:05	#1 (permalink)
mk2phil Registered User Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 95	what is this Font declaration shorthand for? I've recently been looking into stylesheet resetting and have come across many instances of the font declaration having both a percentage and em declaration like shown: font: 75%/1.4em "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; I haven't seen the 75%/1.4em syntax before - what does it mean? Usually I'll set my body font-size to 62.5% and then use my <p> tags with a 1.1em declarations to easily determine pixel size. Cheers