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Percentages

Explore how to apply percentages in CSS for text and element dimensions, understanding their relationship to parent containers and default browser settings. Learn techniques to size text relative to user preferences and elements relative to their parents, helping you build flexible, responsive layouts.



Using Percentages with Texts

Percentages, just like ems and rems are resizable by the user.

If the font-size for instance is a 100%:

NAME_
CSS
p {
font-size: 100%
}

This will ...