• A proprietary, unofficial CSS unit (“quirky em”) to manage margins in reflow roots (body, th, and td) similar to the Internet Explorer web browser. According to the source code, “When the quirky value is used, if you’re in quirks mode, the margin will collapse away inside a table cell.” __qem was originally spelled with one underscore, _qem.

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