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Originally Posted by GrannyGrump
Well, I guess you might say I have one foot in both camps 
I have always used 5pt as the body margin ***fixed margin***
And used either 2em or (more recently) 5% for blockquotes and divs ***variable margin***
I started using % for the blockquotes when I saw some folks complaining about margins that varied with font size.
There's just no pleasing everybody all the time, I guess. |
Well, I would highly complain about 5% margins for anything. That's just too larger and that actually varies based on the screen/app window size. % for a margin is a very bad idea as it's too variable and can be too large sometimes. 5% is of the too variable and too large varieties. On an iPhone screen, 5% margins make10% screen waste and that is very large amount of the space wasted leaving a small amount of space for the text.
2em works on an iPhone screen. So if it can work on such a smallish screen, it can work very well on larger screens. Stick with 2em and you'll be much better off.