This flowchart will help you pick the right CSS unit

The flowchart 👉 https://whatunit.com/

There are a lot of CSS length units to pick from—54 to be exact!—which can make it hard to know which one you should use. Luckily, there are only a handful that you’ll use most of the time, but it can still be hard to know what’s best, so I’ve made a flowchart to help you decide!

🔗 Links
✅ More on clamp() for font-size:    • min(), max(), and clamp() are CSS magic!  st
✅ Why em is good for spacing text:    • CSS gap is NOT a replacement for margins  
✅ svh, lvh, dvh:    • Use these instead of vh  
✅ Using min(), max(), and clamp() for padding and margin:    • Creating squishy padding and margin t...  
✅ Josh Comeau on the problem with 62.5% font-size on the html element: https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/surpr...

⌚ Timestamps
00:00 - Introduction
00:22 - The flowchart
01:54 - positioning, details, and effects
02:55 - font-size
08:00 - spacing
10:40 - Flex and Grid
14:25 - widths and heights

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