Treehouse | Community | Em Units

You found it first ⚡ 50% off any plan for 6 months, exclusive to new subscribers for a limited time only.

Join the Treehouse affiliate program and earn 25% recurring commission!

✨ Earn college credits in Cybersecurity, JS, HTML, CSS and Python

🌟 Dreaming of a bright future? 🎓 Ask about the Treehouse Scholarship program! 🚀

Newest
- Newest
- Active
- Unanswered
- Featured
All Topics

Johanna Svensson
1,998 Points
Why does he define em as always based on THE PARENTS font-size?

Posted October 13, 2020 11:20am by Johanna Svensson

Johanna Svensson
1,998 Points
1 Answer
Ubo Town
3,227 Points
compounding effect

Posted September 26, 2020 1:13am by Ubo Town

Ubo Town
3,227 Points
1 Answer
Ubo Town
3,227 Points
Best form to practice what I've learned

Posted August 15, 2020 11:07pm by Ubo Town

Ubo Town
3,227 Points
2 Answers
Jake Almendarez
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 4,250 Points
will it make much of a difference to just keep it px instead of scaling it with em?

Posted May 16, 2020 1:34am by Jake Almendarez

Jake Almendarez
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 4,250 Points
1 Answer
Corey Rodney
3,075 Points
When and why most people use EM over px

Posted October 23, 2019 7:10pm by Corey Rodney

Corey Rodney
3,075 Points
1 Answer
Kaycee Harris
935 Points
Em, px, and %

Posted June 18, 2019 7:21pm by Kaycee Harris

Kaycee Harris
935 Points
1 Answer
Ting Ting Yang
1,336 Points
In the beginning, Why the relative value's parent is "body"? when we change title size, it based on the size of body?

Posted June 14, 2019 2:19pm by Ting Ting Yang

Ting Ting Yang
1,336 Points
1 Answer
PLUS

hassan mohammad
Courses Plus Student 818 Points
i didn't understand anything :(

Posted April 12, 2019 11:20pm by hassan mohammad

hassan mohammad
Courses Plus Student 818 Points
2 Answers
Jamie Reardon
Treehouse Project Reviewer
Calculating em values

Posted March 15, 2019 10:48pm by Jamie Reardon

Jamie Reardon
Treehouse Project Reviewer
1 Answer
Maddie Duffy
3,659 Points
main header

Posted September 24, 2018 10:03am by Maddie Duffy

Maddie Duffy
3,659 Points
2 Answers
Shaked Gvirtsman
2,270 Points
Why should we use em?

Posted September 22, 2018 12:49pm by Shaked Gvirtsman

Shaked Gvirtsman
2,270 Points
5 Answers
Erick Martinez
2,894 Points
h1 is 5.625 times larger than 1em (16px)?

Posted May 1, 2018 11:06am by Erick Martinez

Erick Martinez
2,894 Points
2 Answers
SeHyun Choi
3,441 Points
Is it always better to use em instead of rem?

Posted April 5, 2018 4:41am by SeHyun Choi

SeHyun Choi
3,441 Points
3 Answers
Andrei Li
34,486 Points
What happens if I resize browser windows? My guess, all em will be decreased proportionally. Or it's gonna be the same?

Posted December 4, 2017 6:08am by Andrei Li

Andrei Li
34,486 Points
2 Answers
Enemuo Felix
1,895 Points
Using em

Posted November 22, 2017 3:45pm by Enemuo Felix

Enemuo Felix
1,895 Points
1 Answer
Sean Flanagan
33,237 Points
Where does 1.6 pixels come from?

Posted October 22, 2017 4:18pm by Sean Flanagan

Sean Flanagan
33,237 Points
2 Answers
Sean McInnis
3,369 Points
Using em for the body

Posted October 15, 2017 7:01pm by Sean McInnis

Sean McInnis
3,369 Points
1 Answer
Aakash Srivastav
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 11,638 Points
em

Posted September 19, 2017 9:17am by Aakash Srivastav

Aakash Srivastav
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 11,638 Points
1 Answer
Frans de Haan
5,193 Points
em or %?

Posted June 1, 2017 5:27pm by Frans de Haan

Frans de Haan
5,193 Points
1 Answer
Brice Franks
1,488 Points
background-image

Posted March 4, 2017 5:07am by Brice Franks

Brice Franks
1,488 Points
4 Answers
Antuan Vazquez
991 Points
Need help on the challenge asking to set the h2's 53px size to a relative em size.

Posted September 13, 2016 4:09pm by Antuan Vazquez

Antuan Vazquez
991 Points
7 Answers
Ben Mohammad
5,659 Points
Part of my title is minute i mean real tiny but i followed the video .

Posted July 3, 2016 8:34am by Ben Mohammad

Ben Mohammad
5,659 Points
1 Answer
J V
4,471 Points
How do we know what the default px is? Or is it always 16px?

Posted May 21, 2016 7:52pm by J V

J V
4,471 Points
3 Answers
Adrian Jewell
3,038 Points
why does the em unit affect px unit?

Posted March 31, 2016 11:39pm by Adrian Jewell

Adrian Jewell
3,038 Points
4 Answers
Robert Greer
3,750 Points
Does default of 16px font-size automatically change depending on viewport resolution?

Posted December 19, 2015 7:39pm by Robert Greer

Robert Greer
3,750 Points
1 Answer
Shuangshuang Zhao
5,822 Points
Is the font size of the parent element a default setting, or can we change it?

Posted October 8, 2015 7:50pm by Shuangshuang Zhao

Shuangshuang Zhao
5,822 Points
2 Answers
johndente
1,642 Points
em relative to parent.

Posted September 22, 2015 12:04pm by johndente

johndente
1,642 Points
1 Answer
PLUS

Johnny Garces
Courses Plus Student 8,551 Points
Making sense of 'ems' with width, margin, and padding.

Posted September 14, 2015 2:43pm by Johnny Garces

Johnny Garces
Courses Plus Student 8,551 Points
1 Answer
rajbee
6,657 Points
order of elements and relative sizing

Posted September 2, 2015 8:06pm by rajbee

rajbee
6,657 Points
1 Answer
Kim Gee
3,841 Points
em

Posted June 9, 2015 4:13pm by Kim Gee

Kim Gee
3,841 Points
2 Answers

Prev Page 1 of 2 Next

Posting to the forum is only allowed for members with active accounts.
Please sign in or sign up to post.