Since I added Bootstrap to my project which has font-size set to 62.5% in the HTML style, I have to review my .CSS file. First, according to what I read online, 62.5% is the "industry standard" but I don't understand why. So I accept it as such.
Prior to this "62.5%" I had/have my CSS define the body font size as 100% (as follows):
body, td {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 100%;
}Therefore when I set a font-size of some element as .80em the font is too small (.80 of .65 of 100% base font). So my question is,
is it a good practice to define the font-size of body to absolute value? For example, to 14px as:
body, td {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 14px;
}Then by setting certain element font-size to em or REM I will be able to better define and control font sized of my pages. Does it make sense?
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