Sorry, it appears that two posts have come up after all. Please ignore this one and refer to :
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/css-design/browse_thread/thread/7a994c38be18eafe?hl=en# Thanks Phill On 6 Jan, 07:51, Phill <[email protected]> wrote: > Oops I think I may have posted this twice. When I posted the first > (this time) it didn't appear immediately. Anyway i've found the answer > with regards to handling the background elements though I still don't > understand why 100% does not work. > > The way I resolved the background issue was to specify the background > I was using in the <body> tag rather than a <div>. > > I couldn't specify absolute values for width and height because the > auto-margins on the divs inside the background div would not centre > correctly on the web page, rather they would centre in the middle of > wherever the background div happened to be according to its size. > > Anyway, if anyone does happen to know how to get div's to display at > 100% without containing anything other than more divs' that would be > great! :) > > Thanks > > Phill > > On 31 Dec 2008, 19:11, Phill <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > I have been scouring the internet to find out whether a solution > > exists to a problem i've been having regarding my background <div> > > element not displaying. It displays as I would like in IE however > > firefox and Safari will not display the background element unless > > there is something in it. > > > I have read various posts which suggest that I simply need to specify > > width and height attributes but this only seems to work when I specify > > absolute values (i.e 1000px rather than 100%). This is how I have > > resolved the problem for now however I was wondering why it did not > > like the 100% values I passed? Has anyone been able to resolve this? > > > Thanks for your help guys :) > > > Phill- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ -- You received this because you are subscribed to the "Design the Web with CSS" at Google groups. To post: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
