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JavaScript: Moving to ES2015
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JavaScript: Moving to ES2015

by Ved Antani, Simon Timms, Narayan Prusty
March 2017
Intermediate to advanced
821 pages
18h 21m
English
Packt Publishing
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Understanding the rem and em CSS units

Bootstrap 4 has switched from px to rem and em wherever possible. This is the main reason why Bootstrap 4 is not supported in IE 8 as IE 8 doesn't support the em and rem units. Bootstrap 4 switched to rem and em because they make responsive typography and component sizing easier.

If you are not familiar with the rem and em CSS units, then it's the right time to learn it.

The em unit is relative to the font size of the parent element. 1em is equal to the current font size of the parent element. 2em means two times the size of the current font. For example, if an element is displayed with a font size of 10 px, then 2em is 20 px. We can achieve responsive typography and components by just changing the parent element's ...

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