HTML 4.10: Legal ranges for Percentages?

• From: Hugh Greene <hgreene@netphysic.com>
• Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 15:50:00 +0100
• To: www-html-editor@w3.org
• Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.0.20010927154600.045f3e78@127.0.0.1>

Hi there,

I just noticed that the HTML 4.01 spec doesn't say anything about the legal 
values for Percentage lengths.  I assume they have to be positive integers 
but do they have to be less than or equal to 100?  The answer may be 
different in different contexts, I suppose (e.g., directly inside the BODY 
versus inside a TABLE).  Some browsers allow values greater than 100, as 
far as I can see (e.g., Internet Explorer for IMG widths and heights) and I 
don't see any harm in that.

I checked the errata but I didn't see anything on this -- maybe worth a 
Clarification (but maybe not ;-).  I haven't checked other versions of 
HTML, nor CSS, SMIL etc.

Thanks,
Hugh Greene.

Received on Thursday, 27 September 2001 10:51:18 UTC