Paragraph. Em and Px

On 23 oct, 04:45, Andy Dingley <ding... (AT) codesmiths (DOT) com> wrote:

On 22 Oct, 22:08, GTalbot <newsgr... (AT) gtalbot (DOT) org> wrote:

That's not true. In IE (all versions), the "normal" default font size
is 16px.

Doesn't that depend on the Windows desktop too, and the font scaling
applied there (Display|Properties|Large Fonts)

Well, you can try it yourself.

When I do

Start/Settings/Control Panel/Display/Appearance tab/Font size: Normal
or Large Fonts or Extra Large Fonts

then the normal default font size for unstyled text (typically a
<p>text</p>) in a webpage in IE 7 and IE 8 is 16px (I'm using XP Pro
SP3). This is also the case for Firefox (all versions) and Seamonkey.

One other way to verify/test this is to load a webpage, any webpage
and then, in IE 7 or IE 8, do:
Tools/Internet Options/General tab/Accessibility button/Ignore font
size specified on webpages,
then check that checkbox and then examine the font size of a <p> and
it should be 16px.

Please keep in mind that IE 8 is now very closely following the
default stylesheet given for HTML 4:
CSS 2.1, Appendix D. Default style sheet for HTML 4
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/sample.html

CSS2.1 User Agent Style Sheet Defaults
http://css-class.com/test/css/defaults/UA-style-sheet-defaults.htm

regards, Gérard
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