Zoe M. Gillenwater wrote: > Sophie Dennis wrote: > >> IE6 treats "width" as "min-width" >> > > No it doesn't. This is a common myth. IE treats height like min-height, > but not width like min-width. Case in point: make a page with a div with > a red background. Give it min-width 500px. Observe that in Firefox the > div will grow to fill the window at all widths except 500 and below, at > which point it's fixed at 500px. Observe that in IE the div will never > grow to fill the window but will always be 500px. Not the same at all. > > Not picking on you, Sophie -- lots of people make this mistake -- but > this myth continues to get propagated and it's one of my pet issues to > squash it. :-) > > Zoe > Hi Zoe,
You are quite right and quite right to pull me up on it. Serves me right for posting without brain engaged properly. I should have said that in certain cases you can use IE6's mishandling of overflow on a fixed width element to simulate the min-width behaviour of other browsers. But you can't use it to create fluid/flexible layouts in the way you can with proper min-width support. In fact, isn't this the same as height/min-height? It isn't that height in IE6 is *the same as* min-height. It's that IE will expand a box to fit its content, regardless of height/width specified. So in IE6 "height: 500px" won't give the same effect as "height: 100%; min-height: 500px" will in other browsers, just as "width: 500px" doesn't give the same effect as "width: 100%; min-width: 500px". Now I've engaged brain here I think I may need to join your mission to squash sloppy thinking on this one ;-) [hangs head in shame...] Sophie -- Sophie Dennis, Creative Director Cayenne Web Development Limited www.cayenne.co.uk ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- 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/
