- From: Ian Graham <igraham@smaug.java.utoronto.ca>
- Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 14:27:37 -0500 (EST)
- To: www-style@w3.org
h&kon wrote: > > Jonas Salling writes: > > > My impression after reading the CSS2 spec. is that the following snipped > > should produce a 200pt-wide red strip. > > <DIV style=3D"padding-left: 20pt; padding-right: 20pt; border-left: solid > > 20pt; border-right: solid 20pt; margin-left: 20pt; margin-right: 20pt; > > width: 200pt;"> > > <P style=3D"background-color: red;">200 pts of red</P> > > </DIV> > > Correct. > > > Unfortunately, IE4 (Win) seems to define 'width' as being the width of the > > content PLUS padding and border. Is this a bug, or am I just confused after > > having spent too many hours working with our rendering machinery? > > It's a bug. > In those cases where it supports percentage widths, Netscape Navigator 4 also implements this incorrectly -- I recall that Navigator 4 always measures percent widths relative to the full width of the browser canvas, indepenent of the parent element width, or any defined padding/margin/border... Ian
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