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 --- Philippe Wittenbergh <http://emps.l-c-n.com> ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/