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Old 09-07-2010, 03:43 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by Nathanael View Post
Not strictly true. An "em", being defined as the width of a lowercase "m", would vary with the size of your text. Increase text size, and the indent increases along with it.

I prefer 1.5em. While % works well for reasonable text sizes, it tends to break down at the extremes. At small text sizes, 3% takes looks a bit much, while for really large text sizes, it can be hard to visually make out any indent at all.

Try it here (w3schools.com).

--Nathanael
But I want it to vary by size of my screen.
My theory, is the wider the screen (line), the more pronounced the indent needs to be. On a small screen (5", 600x800), 2 chars seems to be enough. on a widescreen, I want about 4 chars worth of indent.

Ideally, I would like to have both, % and em at the same time.
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