> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > discuss.org] On Behalf Of Alex Cole > Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2008 5:35 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [css-d] IE absolute and relative height problem > > Hi. > > This seems to be the opposite to what almost everyone else everywhere wants to > know, I've searched all over before coming here and couldn't find anything on > it. I don't know if I was just looking in the wrong place or didn't know how > to correctly and concisely describe the problem in a search engine but anyway, > any pointers on the matter would be helpful. > > I have a div set as 200px x 200px with another div inside it with height 100% > and width 100%. The inner div has overflow:hidden and content far longer than > the specified 200px height. In FF, Opera, Chrome and Safari this displays > exactly as I would expect with the inner content getting cut off at the 200px > line, however in IE, no matter what I try, it seems to stretch the parent div > to as big as the contents. There is a very basic demo of the problem here: > http://www.y-less.com/yavascript/ietest.html > > If anyone knows about the solution to this problem your help would be much > appreciated, I find it hard to believe from the number of results that this is > an uncommon problem.
Replace this: <!doctype HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> With this: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";> -- Regards, Thierry | http://www.TJKDesign.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/
