Are you using the right CSS units?
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- Опубликовано: 2 июн 2024
- There are a lot of different units that we can use when writing CSS, in this video I give some general rules of thumb of which ones are best suited for which situations.
Zell's article on media queries: zellwk.com/blog/media-query-u...
Em vs. Rem: • CSS em and rem explain...
Using clamp() for fonts: • min(), max(), and clam...
The issue with em with font sizes: • Why you shouldn't set ...
Viewport units: • CSS Units: vh, vw, vmi...
The ch unit: • The ch unit is the mos...
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Summary:
font-size: rem
width: % in combination with a max-width, ch
height: question urself "do i rly need to set height" if yes -> use a min-height
padding/margin: rem or em, kevin often uses em for padding of buttons
media queries: em
px only for little things like shadows, borders etc.
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.kevin__coat {
display: flex;
justify-content: flex-start;
}
I think this has align-items: flex-end actually 😂
.kevin__tshirt:nth-child(even){
background: pink;
}
.kevin__tshirt:nth-child(odd){
background: whitesmoke;
}
.kevin__tshirt:nth-child(3n){
background: grey;
}
.kevin__coat {
align-items: space-between;
}
weird flex, but okay
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I think you missed out on CSS Grid and using fractions or fr. Which I think should be very relevant at this time. People really need to start embracing CSS Grid as it makes your layout so much cleaner and allows you to keep your HTML semanticly correct.
Appreciated the comment about ch. I hadn't used that so much and it really makes sense for column sizes.
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For basic HTML games, I define a custom variable in the root relative to the viewport width/height (e.g. min(4vw, 3vh)) and calc everything else relative to that
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Font size : use rem
Width : coupled with max width, use ch unit(75 or less)
Height : set min height
Padding or margin : em(padding for buttons) or rem
Medi queries : em
I learned about Ch from one of Kevin's other video's last year. It's my go to unit for designing text layout now.
The ironic thing, as newb, I've used pixels for most everything because? I haven't the slightest idea of the definition and proper usage of the units you mentioned... Which of course, calls out the immediate need for me to, learn them, and use them accordingly. Thanks for this Kevin. I'm enjoying your content very much.
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Amazing video as always. Super concise and well explained, thanks a lot!!
Man, after your videos I started to use REMs. And it's marvelous. Because you can change only one font-size for body in media-query. And that's all. It works like variables even in IE.
Now I'm thinking in REMs everywhere. Our body default font size is 10px, so it's quite easy to calculate. But it's also easy to scale layouts for any screen size depends on media.
Thank you a lot!
Realy nice example with the button where padding is defined using em! Good job and nice videos - thanks!
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Been a rem user for a long time and love it. First time learning about ch. I'm very excited to start using it in some of my websites.
Great video! It definitely gets confusing sometimes, especially if you’re hours into a project, getting tired and start making mistakes. I’m still a designer at heart, even though I’ve been writing code for decades, it’s not often enough to keep track of everything... and then throw math into the mix after a long day, d’oh!
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Same!! made a new css which went from 1000 lines to 700 for my website
You can also make a function in scss to calculate the pixels to rem. I always use that and call the function px-to-rem() if you take this in use make sure you don't have to put a value with px at the end to make it faster to write it.
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Our designers want things to look consistent across sizes, fully responsive, and they also make very complex designs. This means the headings, boxes, margins, padding all needs to adjust to screen size. I find myself using Calc with VW quite often. I don't know of that's the best way, but it has been working for me. I do use REM for font size whenever I can though. Thanks!!
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This was the video I was looking for. I know how the units work, but where to use them busted my brain. For the most part I was using vh and vw to much. Also, I was using em for my font sizes, and the parents all the way up were using em as well. Also the whole concept presented here will stick. Thank you Kevin. Big fan.
Update: I read the article regarding the media queries and I'm curios if it's still relevant today. It definitely was written a long time ago. I'm using Webflow and was surprised to see them using px for media queries.
Hey Kevin, your videos are awesome 👌, just wanted to ask you that is it a good practice to give margin top & bottom in vw?
Thanks so much for this I'm always insecure about what units to use
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Great video! As a product designer who has just started writing my own html/css, I find your videos really useful!
It would be great for beginners if you could expand on the issues with examples, such as what issues using the viewport width would cause. ✌️
My rules of thumb are:
» % or vw for box widths
» % or vh for box heights (indeed, rarely)
» rem or em for font sizes, leadings, and other type-related dimensions (e.g. image sizes sometimes)
» em for paddings and margins
» px for border widths (especially when aiming for that 1px crisp) and media queries (will take a look at the article you recommended, but in principle, it worked well for me so far) and widths and heights (even if I override them in CSS in other units)
» ch for paragraph max-widths
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Due to writing a lot of wordpress stuff, I've avoided using the 62.5% font-size trick since that breaks certain styles in the admin. Instead I have a SASS function called rem(), which just takes whatever pixel value I want to have, and devides by 16 to convert to rems. Definitely a few more characters to type (painfully so), but I've honestly gotten used to it and outside of the awkwardness using them in things like long padding declarations, it's been pretty nice.
Untill the designer uses inspector to figure out size adjustments and gives me values in REMs that I have to convert back to pixel values. Then it's hell.
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Hi! First of all thanks for this awesome video🙂.
I have a question that whether we should use percentage as a unit for margin and padding or rem?
That's really helpful.
I occasionally need to design things for print, and sometimes for label printers, so need to be able to control exact size on the page. I generally use cm or mm with media queries for these.
I come from a print background, and the idea of using fixed units like that in CSS scares me so much, lol. But it does the job!
@@KevinPowell Absolutely. I think in most cases fixed units are to be avoid. There are just occasions when something needs go to a printer, and needs to fit precise measurements. Mostly this will be for admin pages that end users will never see.
This topic interested so much I liked before watching, I hope the algorithm gods noticed
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When ı wasn't know the difference between relative and absolute units ı used to the absolute units and because of that struggled with media queries. Thanks to Allah ı learned them and now my layouts even more responsive and ı don't use media queries too much.
I like the idea of px for html font size (can change with breakpoints), rem for components, and em for elements within those components.
For accessibility reasons, it's really important not to set the html font size with a pixel value. Assume the default is 16, and use a percentage. You can still scale that number up and down within breakpoints :)
Same here I don't use pixels as much anymore. For when I do use them, it's usually some margin left or right that needed 4px or something. The only big use I have for pixels is sometimes I will use them for min-widths where appropriate.
I tend to use "em" for button padding, When text of my buttons are of different sizes, because if you are using fluid typography "em" will resize based on font size, much better alternative, since i use svg icons for my buttons.
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literally subbing because the "ch" explanation
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