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Easy brower-compatible rem units with SCSS
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| /* Note: this method disables user font scaling via browser preferences. | |
| It's up to you whether this is a good thing. In this case, browsers | |
| that don't support rem get the default (pixel) value, and don't get | |
| the fancy scaling. | |
| */ | |
| $rem_size: 10; | |
| $rem_px: #{$rem_size}px; | |
| @mixin rem($property, $value) { | |
| #{$property}: $value * $rem_size; | |
| #{$property}: #{$value}rem; | |
| } | |
| /* sets <html /> font size to your rem unit */ | |
| html { font-size: $rem_px; } | |
| /* changes font scale based for a larger page width */ | |
| @media only screen and (min-width: 480px) { | |
| html { font-size: 20px;} | |
| } | |
| /* sets the <body /> font size to 16px (the de-facto browser default. */ | |
| body { font-size: 1600%/$rem_size;} | |
| /* sets the element's font-size and border-width to rem values, | |
| defaulting to pixels. | |
| */ | |
| .element-somewhere { | |
| @include rem(font-size, 2.2); | |
| @include rem(border-width, 1); | |
| } |
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REM unit support is in most browsers.