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Re: More Info on Using UL for links question

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From: Sonja Ray
Date: Mar 17, 2004 5:52AM

Sorry, I thought it would be fairly clear that one should adjust the number
of pixels specified in the bottom margin according to the size of the fonts
on your page.

If your font are 90px(!) you could specify a bottom margin of 90px, or
100px, or whatever. If the font size if 9px, you could specify a bottom
margin of 6 or 8 px.

You can also specify the margin in points, percentages, ems and several
other units. Pick your poison.

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> From: "Jukka K. Korpela" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
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> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 07:19:42 +0200 (EET)
> To: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> Subject: Re: More Info on Using UL for links question
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> Resent-Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 22:19:45 -0700
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> On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Sonja Ray wrote:
>
>> li {margin-bottom:12px;}
>>
>> I use this all the time. It works a dream.
>
> Not quite. When the font size is 9px, it creates an unnecessarily large
> gap. When the font size is 90px, it's too small. And if your page also
> sets font size in pixels, then that's even worse - and users who are
> forced to make their browser override all of the author's font size
> settings will hardly override the margin-bottom setting.
>
> Use em, Luke. Stay away from the px side.
>
> --
> Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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