Thanks, Barney.  I think I solved this by using px values for the width 
(original width scaled to 80%) and % for the height.  I can't give a URL 
(behind a firewall), and I'll try to get a moment to copy the code -- but I 
tried to simplify the example.

Sara


On Jul 27, 2011, at 2:40 PM, Barney Carroll wrote:

> Hi Sara,
> 
> Combining fixed-unit (px) and proportional (%) measurements for macro-level 
> layout often leads to problems. Without further details about the layout it's 
> hard to see exactly how the problem is manifesting itself.
> 
> Can you give us a URL of the work in question or paste the code into 
> jsfiddle.net for us to have a closer look?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Barney Carroll
> (+44) 742 9177 278
> 
> On 27 Jul 2011, at 19:20, Sara Haradhvala <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> I have a captioned image that contains an image and caption - it's floated 
>> left -  and text flows around it.  For the print stylesheet, I'd like to 
>> size the image and caption down to 80%.  So, I do this:
>> 
>> #captionedImage {
>> width:100px;
>> height:100px;
>> }
>> 
>> #captionedImage img, #captionedImage .caption {
>> width:80%;
>> height:80%;
>> }
>> 
>> The scaling works fine -- 
>> 
>> The problem is that the #captionedImage box is still 100 x 100 and so there 
>> is a margin between the image/caption and text.  Any way to get rid of that?
>> 
>> Thanks so much,
>> Sara
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