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hoppy bouasavanh
Courses Plus Student 1,791 PointsHow do i know whether an element suits "px" or "%" ? PLEASE ,,
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3 Answers
Andrew McCormick
17,730 Pointsmy rule of thumb is if I want the element to resize or not.
Herb Bresnan
10,658 PointsRight. px is fixed and will remain the same size. % will resize to a percentage of the parent element.
Ali M Malik
33,293 PointsWell, here's what I think, use mostly % to keep your design fluid, but assign px measurements to add more control over the sizing. Let say you are inserting something like an image tag and you know your photo file is 720 px wide, so you give the img a max width 720 px and a width in percentages of maybe 45%. What this is saying is hey img be 45% of the page until you hit your max width of 720 px, then stop there.
Hope this helps.
hoppy bouasavanh
Courses Plus Student 1,791 Pointshoppy bouasavanh
Courses Plus Student 1,791 Pointsit's seemingly make sense. I spent a time thinking about that. However, could u please throw more light on it ?