Sorry Webnauts, the topic was made sticky and I did not notice it move.

Now onto the great text size debate :)

No you did not get me wrong. I do use pixel sizes. When you say to use percent or em then you have to consider what that is a percentage of or how big the m actually is, the base text size needs to be defined somewhere either as pt, px or the browser default text size.

I find using pixel sizes gives me the best results across multi platforms and browsers. As I said above pixels are relative to the users screen. Specifying pt is going to leave you with large text on one platform and miniscule text on another.

So for me with the average user using a screen resolution of 800x600 - 1024x768 a base font size of 12px is what I will be sticking to.

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