CSS units - ch
CSS units - ch
- The
ch
unit allows for setting widths according to character width
- This makes web typography easier by allowing developers to set an ideal width for text boxes
- Solves the problem of text content being too wide and therefore unreadable
- Defines “character width” according to the
o
glyph of the current element’s font (including font-size, etc.)
- this definition means that non-monospaced fonts will potentially behave unpredictably, since an
m
is clearly wider than an o
, so a 65ch
width will not always be 65 characters wide