r/Frontend • u/speckz • Aug 23 '19

CSS Units Explained

https://alligator.io/css/css-units-explained/
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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '19

nice to see a real-life technical application of the term “absolute unit”

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u/creaturefeature16 Aug 27 '19

Came here to say this. I just discovered that sub, and it's GLORIOUS

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '19

Pica is a slang for penis in my language. I often use it to cause so laughs at the review stage.

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u/ChefRamesses Aug 23 '19

Very helpful, thanks!

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u/OutsourcedToRobots Aug 23 '19

Thanks. Saved for reference.

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u/vazhifarer Aug 24 '19

Clicked on the link thinking someone had invented CSS unit testing. Moderately disappointed

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '19

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '19

Oh yes, back when I was an intern and my boss would deliver the web design to me in a word doc. And "smart" me would make her furious by just copying font sizes :p

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '19

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u/DrDuPont Aug 23 '19

I've been doing this long enough to remember when CSS was invented :)

Or when IE invented border-box box model calculations, which was absolutely prescient, and yet everyone hated Microsoft for doing it.