Set your position: and possibly display:
Best,
Karl
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> On Jan 22, 2015, at 10:39 PM, worik <worik.stan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Friends
>
> I have problems getting my sizing of divs correct.
>
>
> Given the HTML:
>
> <div class="A">A B C
> <div class="B">E F G</div>
> </div>
>
> .A {
> width=100%;
> border:2px solid blue;
> }
> .B {
> width=50%;
> border:1px solid red;
> }
>
> I want to make the nested div half the width of the outer div. But they
> both expand to the fill width.
>
> Clearly I am missing something elementary. Some times I can make this
> work, some times I cannot, and I confess I have confused myself.
>
> cheers
> W
>
> PS I see some people on this list are using http://jsfiddle.net/. I
> used it to test this code but I cannot work out how to generate a link.
> It does not help that I cannot decipher the captcha to sign up.
> Perhaps I am not really a person....
>
> --
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