On Apr 25, 2008, at 12:47 AM, Vance Lowe wrote: > Apparently firefox doesn't recognize percentage based sizes unless > its got a > parent element to base that off of. let me know if I am way off base
That is the correct and expected behaviour. Gecko, WebKit and Opera all behave the same. <http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visudet.html#propdef-height> [quote] If the height of the containing block is not specified explicitly (i.e., it depends on content height), and this element is not absolutely positioned, the value computes to 'auto'. [/quote] Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh http://l-c-n.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
