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

Sean Flanagan
Sean Flanagan
33,235 Points
Posted by Sean Flanagan
Sean Flanagan
33,235 Points

Where does 1.6 pixels come from?

Hi.

I'm not sure where 1.6 pixels comes from (about 5-6 minutes into the video). I would appreciate some clarification please.

Thanks in advance

Sean

2 Answers

Darrell Osborne
Darrell Osborne
23,146 Points

Assuming that you are actually asking about 1.6 em (vs. pixels as asked in your question), 1.6 is the equivalent em value of 26px based on the body font-size of 16px. As noted in the comment next to that line of code, 26px was divided by 16px in order to calculate what the em unit of measurement would be.

Hopefully that helps.