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Dreamweaver, ems and everything

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Jun 12.2009

Not sure if this is the right place to post this but where I work we use ems instead of pixels. When I am working on my CSS in Dreamweaver (using Photoshop to get the designers font-size for the text)and I get the code hints menu, everything is in pixels. To get the correct pixel to em conversion I have to use a calculator and the pixel/11 formula to get the em size.

Is there anyway to set Dreamweaver to display pixels with their ems conversion? Any Dreamweaver extensions out there anyone know of that I can install that’ll do this?

Enquiring minds want to know. Thanks for any help you can give me.

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@KDLAJun 12.2009 — I set the body to base 10 when I code, then the em calculation is only adding a decimal.
body {font-size: 10px;}
p {font-size: 1.2em;} /*equals 12px*/
From my testing, this does not impact text resize abilities.

Also, it helps when using em to establish widths.
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@stephenScudauthorJun 12.2009 — Interesting. I'll give that a go and see how it works out.
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@KDLAJun 12.2009 — It's very helpful, given that there is a slight difference in the default for "em" between IE and Firefox.
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