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Re: Confused with length units em,en, & ex in Margin

From: Neil St.Laurent <neil@bigpic.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 16:39:53 -0600
Message-Id: <199707222235.QAA00290@underworld.bigpic.com>
To: Hakon Lie <howcome@w3.org>
CC: www-style@w3.org 
In the time of 23 Jul 97:0:31, Hakon Lie pronounced:

>  > In a margin specification (or padding)  I'm assuming the en and em 
>  > measurements are based on the font for the current element.  Is this 
> Yes..
> Implementing?

We're implementing a visual editor for CSS.

In languages without 'N' and 'M' and 'X' is the value for the 
measurements en,em, and ex supposed to be mapped to something 
appropriate?  Are there any guidelines that you know of?


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