I’ve been searching through W3C mailing lists but haven’t found any debate on this decision. Here’s what I can infer: 1995 The first published version of the HTML spec (before CSS came into play) actually specified that h4 and h5 should be “normal font” size. The font size for h6 wasn’t explicitly specified, but I … Read more
Hmmm… no. If the only problem is the fact that   (U+2009) is still breaking, I will prefer to use: <span style=”white-space:nowrap”> </span> to correct the breaking behavior. Why? Because the French fine is effectively using a nearly fixed width between one sixth to one fourth of a cadratin (0.166 ca. to 0.25 ca., when the … Read more
I needed a replacement for hexadecimal (base 16) for similar reasons (e.g. for encoding a key, etc.), the best I could come up with is the following set of 16 characters, which can be used as a replacement for hexadecimal: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E … Read more
  (thin space) should do Note that does not have the same width as an — (—); to separate numbers you should use a narrow no-break space (U+202F). As others have mentioned, you are better off using the CSS property word-spacing to define the width of your spaces. It is probably a good idea … Read more
Point sizes are defined as 1/72 of an inch. That is, a 72-point font is approximately 1 inch from the lowest descent to the highest ascent. So the maximum height of a glyph in a 72pt font is about 1 inch. Apple’s iphone tech specs page claims that the iPhone currently has a resolution of … Read more
You were close. italic is used with font-style whereas bold is used with font-weight. Use: font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;
Update MUI v4 has responsive typography built in! Check here for details. Old response @Luke’s answer is great. I wanted to add some detail to make this work in practice, because both breakpoints and pxToRem are accessible on the theme object… making this becomes a chicken and egg problem! My approach: import { createMuiTheme } … Read more
Update MUI v4 has responsive typography built in! Check here for details. Old response @Luke’s answer is great. I wanted to add some detail to make this work in practice, because both breakpoints and pxToRem are accessible on the theme object… making this becomes a chicken and egg problem! My approach: import { createMuiTheme } … Read more
Update: Nowadays, modern browsers use these values. Original answer: They are defined by each browser maker independently. They are not uniform across browsers and are there for semantics (Large header, slightly smaller header etc…). If you look at the HTML 4 specification for these, there no mention of how they are supposed to be styled, … Read more
× Unicode: U+00D7 MULTIPLICATION SIGN HTML: ×, × CSS: \00d7 See the Wikipedia article about the multiplication sign: In mathematics, the symbol × (read as times or multiplied by) is primarily used to denote the […] Geometric dimension of an object, such as noting that a room is 10×12 feet in area. Depending on the … Read more