CSS units - ch
Keywords: | CSS, styles, size units, responsive, ch, character width |
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- 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 ano
, so a65ch
width will not always be 65 characters wide
- this definition means that non-monospaced fonts will potentially behave unpredictably, since an