CSS positioning and window dimensions from David Perrell on 1997-04-16 (www-style@w3.org from April 1997)

From: David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 13:27:53 -0700
To: "Style" <www-style@w3.org>
Message-Id: <199704162028.NAA25941@norway.it.earthlink.net>

Re: 'Positioning HTML Elements with Cascading Style Sheets' 
<http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/TR/WD-positioning>

With this declaration:

   BODY { overflow: clip; }
   DIV  { top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;
          overflow: scroll; }

and this markup:

   <BODY>
   <DIV>
   <P>Does this division element fill the UA window?
   </DIV>

what happens?

If the default initial position and size of BODY could be considered
congruent with the UA's window, CSS positioning would provide an
alternative to frames for non-scrolling navigation bars.

David Perrell

Received on Wednesday, 16 April 1997 16:29:11 UTC