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CSS CSS Basics (2014) Understanding Values and Units Em Units

Ting Ting Yang
Ting Ting Yang
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Posted by Ting Ting Yang
Ting Ting Yang
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In the beginning, Why the relative value's parent is "body"? when we change title size, it based on the size of body?

In the beginning, Why the relative value's parent is "body"? when we change title size, it based on the size of body even though we didn't set the "body"size as default size

thanks ~~~

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points

The element with the class of "title" is a <span> that has the <header> as a direct parent. It is in turn a child of the <body> element. The reference for font size is always based on the direct parent, but in a case of nesting like this, the properties are passed down from level to level.

So while the body isn't the direct parent, changes made to it would affect the "title" span as long as they were not overridden in the immediate parent (the header).

Ubo Town
Ubo Town
3,227 Points

i almost understood lol, do you think you can explain this very very detailed for me?