- From: L. David Baron <dbaron@fas.harvard.edu>
- Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 13:58:51 -0500 (EST)
- To: www-style@w3.org
There was a discussion a few days ago [1] on c.i.w.a.s about expressing border widths in percentages (of the parent's width). None of us had any idea why this was not allowed by CSS1 [2] and CSS2 [3], like it is for margin and padding. It would be very useful for doing things like floats that should occupy exactly half (or a third, etc.) of the width of the page. Without being able to specify percentage width borders, one has to resort to adding extra markup by enclosing the float in an extra div, as I described in [4]. David Baron [1] http://www.dejanews.com/[ST_rn=ps]/thread/%3c36c818b8.171348085@enews.newsguy.com%3e%231/0 [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS1#border-width [3] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/box.html#propdef-border-width [4] http://www.dejanews.com/[ST_rn=ps]/getdoc.xp?AN=444387847 ----------------------------------------------------------------- L. David Baron Freshman, Harvard dbaron@fas.harvard.edu Links, SatPix, CSS, etc. < http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~dbaron/ > WSP CSS AC < http://www.webstandards.org/css/ >
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