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CSS CSS Basics Understanding Values and Units Percentages

karan Badhwar
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karan Badhwar
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karan Badhwar
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Why the Image did not shrink into the #header-box's width adjustments? it was out of the box, when we gave the #header-box width: 50%; we did that manually, and moreover we put the width of the h1 400% but as Anwar said it is 64px he multiplied it by 4 why not 400?

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Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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The image was not originally scaled relative to the container, so it was displayed as actual size from the file. Adding width: 100% to the img tag in CSS constrained it to fit inside the container.

And a percentage is always 100 times more than a multiplier. So increasing something by 400% is the same as multiplying it by 4.

karan Badhwar
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karan Badhwar
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karan Badhwar
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so you mean to say Image does not inherit properties from the parent element? right. That means 100% = Default Font-Size right? ex:- 16px = 100% 200% = 2(16 px)

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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Some properties are inherited, and some are not. In this case, width is not inherited or constrained by default. You can look up the formal definition of an individual property like width in the MDN reference pages to see if that particular property is inherited.

And while percentage measurements can be used for both width or font size, they are two different parameters and have no relationship to each other.