- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 02:23:24 -0800
- To: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
- Cc: Brian Manthos <brianman@microsoft.com>, Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>, "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>, fantasai <fantasai@inkedblade.net>
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 10:53 PM, Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com> wrote: > Actually, come to think of it, even this would be useful for some layout work when lots of things in a chain of descendants are measured in ems, and it is hard to track what the current font-size would be in pixels, but you know you want a certain distance that changes with the font-size (for a text-shadow offset, perhaps): > > calc(3px, as em) I don't understand how this would accomplish what you want. Assume that the font-size was originally 15px, so this resolves to .2em. Then the element changes to font-size:30px. This then resolves to .1em, *not* to 6px like I think you want. If you were counting on this to work with inheritance, ems are never inherited - they get computed into px (this is why line-height can be specified with a <number> as well). ~TJ
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