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Life & fun · March 30, 2013

CSS with no px units

I recently built a new template for my rather basic WordPress blog. I wanted to avoid using px units wherever possible, so that I could have a design that would scale uniformly across multiple device resolutions. It started as an experiment, to see how far I could get without px units. The more I learned, the more excited my campaign to eliminate px from the stylesheet. I ended up eliminating px units entirely. Everything is sized with vw units (relative to the width of the viewport). The last remaining px units were sizing standard Facebook and Twitter buttons. I got frustrated by not being…

CSS with no px units launched on March 30, 2013 with 8 votes, #151 of 671 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 13 years on.

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I recently built a new template for my rather basic WordPress blog. I wanted to avoid using px units wherever possible, so that I could have a design that would scale uniformly across multiple device resolutions. It started as an experiment, to see how far I could get without px units. The more I learned, the more…

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