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CSS 'q' length unit

Category

CSS

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 63)

Intent stage

None

Summary

support 'q' absolute length unit. 1q is equivalent to 1/40th of 1cm.

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://drafts.csswg.org/css-values/#absolute-lengths
• Firefox: Shipped/Shipping
• Safari: No signal
• Web developers: No signals
• Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=421907

Docs: http://thenewcode.com/1158/The-Q-Continuum-Using-q-Measurements-In-CSS http://tosche.net/2013/10/font-size-in-the-metric-system_e.html

Samples: http://w3c-test.org/html/semantics/embedded-content/the-img-element/sizes/parse-a-sizes-attribute.html

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