Rem Plugin#

The Rem plugin implements the rem adaptive layout for mobile pages, allowing the font size to be dynamically adjusted according to the screen size, making web pages adaptively displayed on screens of different sizes.

The plugin provides the following capabilities:

• Integrates postcss-pxtorem to convert the px units in CSS to rem.
• Inserts runtime code into the HTML template to set the fontSize of the root element.

Quick Start#

Install Plugin#

You can install the plugin using the following command:

npm add @rsbuild/plugin-rem -D

Register Plugin#

You can register the plugin in the rsbuild.config.ts file:

import { pluginRem } from '@rsbuild/plugin-rem';

export default {
  plugins: [pluginRem()],
};

Options#

Default Options#

const defaultOptions = {
  enableRuntime: true,
  rootFontSize: 50,
  screenWidth: 375,
  rootFontSize: 50,
  maxRootFontSize: 64,
  widthQueryKey: '',
  excludeEntries: [],
  supportLandscape: false,
  useRootFontSizeBeyondMax: false,
  pxtorem: {
    rootValue: 50,
    unitPrecision: 5,
    propList: ['*'],
  },
};

Details#

Example#

pluginRem({
  rootFontSize: 30,
  excludeEntries: ['404', 'page2'],
  pxtorem: {
    propList: ['font-size'],
  },
});

Usage Guide#

CSS conversion properties#

By default, rootFontSize is 50. So the CSS styles value are converted according to the ratio of 1rem : 50px.

/* input */
h1 {
  margin: 0 0 16px;
  font-size: 32px;
  line-height: 1.2;
  letter-spacing: 1px;
}

/* output */
h1 {
  margin: 0 0 0.32rem;
  font-size: 0.64rem;
  line-height: 1.2;
  letter-spacing: 0.02rem;
}

By default, Rsbuild converts all CSS properties from px to rem. If you want to convert only the font-size property, you can setting pxtorem.propList is ['font-size'].

pluginRem({
  pxtorem: {
    propList: ['font-size'],
  },
});

How to ignore some CSS properties converted to REM?#

pxtorem.propList in addition to specifying which attributes need to be converted, you also can specify which elements are not converted through !:

pluginRem({
  pxtorem: {
    propList: ['*', '!border-width'], // not convert 'border-width'
  },
});

If you only want some individual CSS properties not to be converted to REM, you can also refer to the following writing method:

/* `px` is converted to `rem` */
.convert {
    font-size: 16px; // converted to 1rem
}

/* `Px` or `PX` is ignored by `postcss-pxtorem` but still accepted by browsers */
.ignore {
    border: 1Px solid; // ignored
    border-width: 2PX; // ignored
}

More info about postcss-pxtorem.

Setting the page rootFontSize#

The formula for calculating the font size of the page root element is:

In a mobile browser with a screen width of 390, the default value for rootFontSize is 50 and the screenWidth of the UI design is 375.

The calculated font size for the root element of the page is 52 (390 * 50 / 375).

At this point, 1 rem is 52px, 32px (0.64 rem) in the CSS style, the actual size in page is 33.28 px.

pluginRem({
  rootFontSize: 50,
  screenWidth: 375,
});

Customize maxRootFontSize#

In the desktop browser, the page rootFontSize obtained from the calculation formula is often too large. When the calculated result large than the maxRootFontSize, the maxRootFontSize will used as the page rootFontSize.

In the desktop browser with a screen width of 1920, the calculated rootFontSize is 349, which exceeds the default maxRootFontSize of 64. 64 is used as the current root element font value.

pluginRem({
  maxRootFontSize: 64,
});

How to get the rootFontSize value that is actually in effect on the page?#

The actual rootFontSize in effect for the page is calculated dynamically based on the current page. It can be seen by printing document.documentElement.style.fontSize or obtained by window.ROOT_FONT_SIZE.

How to specify the actual rootFontSize value of the page?#

By default, the actual rootFontSize of the page will be dynamically calculated based on the situation of the current page. If you want to specify the actual rootFontSize of the page, you can turn off the enableRuntime configuration and set it in Custom HTML template and inject document.documentElement.style.fontSize = '64px' by yourself.

export default {
  html: {
    template: './static/index.html',
  },
  plugins: [
    pluginRem({
      enableRuntime: false,
    }),
  ],
};

How to determine if REM is in effect？#

1. CSS: Check the generated .css file to see if the value of the corresponding property is converted from px to rem.
2. HTML: Open the Page Console to see if a valid value exists for document.documentElement.style.fontSize.