Ah no. This is the crux of it: you need additional markup for the scaffold.
A parent with relativity and containment, a semantically useless child with
the padding, and your second child taking advantage of the resulting shape
to hold the genuine contents. I was thinking of adding the disclaimer:
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On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Barney Carroll
wrote:
> Thierry wrote up an excellent technique for this that is incidentally very
> useful when scaling embedded media. The linked article frames it in that
> context, but the principles are the same: a padding property percentage
> will take rela
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Barney Carroll
wrote:
> Thierry wrote up an excellent technique for this that is incidentally very
> useful when scaling embedded media. The linked article frames it in that
> context, but the principles are the same: a padding property percentage
> will take rela
Thierry wrote up an excellent technique for this that is incidentally very
useful when scaling embedded media. The linked article frames it in that
context, but the principles are the same: a padding property percentage
will take relative width as its reference:
alistapart.com/article/creating-int
I've been doing some googling and not having great luck in solving this
problem. I've got some old pixel-based layouts that I'm trying to
"retrofit" to responsive layouts. I know all about the magic "target /
context = result%" formula for figuring percentage-based widths, but what I
can't figure o
