How a little BEM and cleverness can make extensive use of EMs worth doing, and how it can up your game. Using relative units for measurements has a lot of advantages, but can cause a lot of heartache if inheritance goes wrong. But as I’ll demonstrate, BEM methodology and some clever standardization can reduce or eliminate the downsides. A little vocab before we get too far into this: em units CSS
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