On Saturday 2004-03-27 11:51 +0100, Jens Tinz wrote:
> The CSS specification (at 
> http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/visudet.html#propdef-height) says
> this about height properties with a percentage:
> 
> "Specifies a percentage height. The percentage is calculated
> with respect to the height of the generated box's containing
> block."

The next sentence is important:

  If the height of the containing block is not specified explicitly
  (i.e., it depends on content height), the value is interpreted like
  'auto'.

That's true in this case.

-David

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L. David Baron                                <URL: http://dbaron.org/ >
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