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Font sizing with “rem”

May 3rd 2011
  • Categories: Note
  • Tags: accessibility, css, em, jonathansnook, rem, typography

After years of web designers being on either side of the em vs. px debate, CSS3 has introduced the rem (root-em) unit.

Jonathan Snook found that Safari, Google Chrome, Firefox 3.6+ and IE9 supported this unit. And the nice part is that IE9 supports resizing text when defined using rems.

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