On Aug 22, 2006, at 9:14 AM, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote:

> Chris Ovenden wrote:
>> #outer {
>>   background-color: red; width: 100%; min-height: 400px; height:1px
>> }
>
>
> Tony Martin wrote:
>
>> that does the trick - thanks.  I am intrigued that you thought to
>> try that,
>> but the fact that it works does suggest diferent rendering paths
>> similar to
>> has_layout.  I guess the question is then, whether this should be
>> reported
>> as a firefox issue, or can someone come up with an explanation?
>
> Don't do that if you care about Safari, Opera and Konqueror. They
> display the floated box as 1px tall.
>
> iCab 303 and Gecko based browsers expand the floated box to the min-
> height of the other box but no more; if the content of your other
> column exceeds the min-height, two things happen: the floated box
> doesn't grow any more, and the background on the box with height and
> min-height doesn't grow either (that is the correct behaviour).
> Here is a test file
> <http://dev.l.c-n.com/_temp/test20060822.php>
>
> I have a hard time understanding the behaviour of Gecko and iCab.
> I'll have to review the css 2.1 docs to make sure who's wrong here.

Oooops.... the correct url is:
<http://dev.l-c-n.com/_temp/test20060822.php>

thanks David.

Philippe
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