G'day Min-height and max-height are used for constraining an element. If an object in the element is smaller than min-height, then the element's height will be min-height. On the other hand, if the object is bigger than the element, the max-height will determine the element's height. That's what should happen, where the browsers actually do this is another story.
My understand is that 'min-height' isn't really supported by most browsers. Or only partially supported. I could be wrong because I haven't checked this on one of those browser compatibility charts, but I've never been able to get IE to work with it. Personally I steer clear of it for the time being. Darian Cabot -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Cabot Consultants Pty Ltd Software Engineer / Website Design http://www.cabotconsultants.com.au -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > I'm not sure if my understanding of min-height is correct. What I want > to do is set a min-height on a div and then when there is too much info > it will automatically expand itself. > > Apparently, I need to use height as well for M$ browsers but what I > don't quite understand is how do the other browsers properly interpret > that when you have both a height and a min-height...? > > Wouldn't it possibly be easier to just use height and then > overflow:visible to achieve the same effect? > > I can test around with this but I'm curious if there is a best-practice > for this kind of thing... > > Thanks for any thoughts...v > > ***************************************************** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > ***************************************************** > ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help *****************************************************
