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Direct link to the article “Smart” Layouts With Container Queries
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“Smart” Layouts With Container Queries

Modern CSS keeps giving us a lot of new, easier ways to solve old problems, but often the new features we’re getting don’t only solve old problems, they open up new possibilities as well.

Container queries are one of those …

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Kevin Powell on Aug 14, 2024
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Direct link to the article Building Resizeable Components with Relative CSS Units
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Building Resizeable Components with Relative CSS Units

The following is a guest post by Ahmad Shadeed. Ahmad has put together a ton of examples to show off how using relative units can benefit us. I think a lot of us think of units like em as …

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Ahmad Shadeed on Sep 9, 2016
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Direct link to the article Use `rem` for Global Sizing; Use `em` for Local Sizing
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Use `rem` for Global Sizing; Use `em` for Local Sizing

Richard Rutter’s guide for setting the font-size of an element is interesting: he argues that we should use both em and rem units depending on the relationship it might have with other elements on the page:

Take the example of

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Robin Rendle on Mar 12, 2016

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