Percentage Units vs Em Units
Developers should learn and use percentage units when building responsive web designs that need to adjust fluidly across devices, such as in grid layouts, image sizing, or typography scaling meets developers should use em units when creating responsive designs that need to scale with user font-size preferences, such as in typography, margins, and padding for text-heavy interfaces. Here's our take.
Percentage Units
Developers should learn and use percentage units when building responsive web designs that need to adjust fluidly across devices, such as in grid layouts, image sizing, or typography scaling
Percentage Units
Nice PickDevelopers should learn and use percentage units when building responsive web designs that need to adjust fluidly across devices, such as in grid layouts, image sizing, or typography scaling
Pros
- +They are essential for creating flexible components that maintain proportions relative to their containers, improving accessibility and user experience on varying viewports
- +Related to: css-units, responsive-design
Cons
- -Specific tradeoffs depend on your use case
Em Units
Developers should use em units when creating responsive designs that need to scale with user font-size preferences, such as in typography, margins, and padding for text-heavy interfaces
Pros
- +They are particularly useful for building accessible websites that respect browser zoom settings and user-defined font sizes, ensuring elements remain proportional and readable across different devices and user configurations
- +Related to: css, responsive-web-design
Cons
- -Specific tradeoffs depend on your use case
The Verdict
Use Percentage Units if: You want they are essential for creating flexible components that maintain proportions relative to their containers, improving accessibility and user experience on varying viewports and can live with specific tradeoffs depend on your use case.
Use Em Units if: You prioritize they are particularly useful for building accessible websites that respect browser zoom settings and user-defined font sizes, ensuring elements remain proportional and readable across different devices and user configurations over what Percentage Units offers.
Developers should learn and use percentage units when building responsive web designs that need to adjust fluidly across devices, such as in grid layouts, image sizing, or typography scaling
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