> in other words, try to use relative rather than absolute units in your > (markup language attribute values or) in your stylesheet property > values for text size like *percent* instead of pixels (e.g. font-size: > 75%;). ah yes,..pixel is an example of absolute unit.
Correction lang po. “pixel” is a relative distance (length) unit, not absolute. 🙂 Why? Because, according to W3C’s CSS syntax definition, pixel units are relative to the resolution of the viewing device (e.g. most often a computer display). If the pixel density of the output device is very different from that of a typical computer display, the user agent should rescale pixel values.
This works fine with Mozilla browsers, but not in IE. I don’t know why.
By the way, to summarize, there are two types of length units in CSS, the relative and absolute. “relative” length units are:
- em — the current ‘font-size’ of the relevant font
- ex — the ‘x-height’ of the relevant font or the height of a small x
- px — pixels is relative to the viewing device
The “absolute” length units are only useful when the physical properties of the output medium are known. The absolute units are:
- in — inches, 1 inch is equal to 2.54 centimeters
- cm — centimeters
- mm — millimeters
- pt — points, the points used by CSS2 are equal to 1/72th of an inch
- pc — picas, 1 pica is equal to 12 points or 1 pica to 6 inches
For more info, please browse: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/syndata.html#length-units
