- From: Clover Andrew <aclover@1value.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 16:20:26 +0200
- To: <www-style@w3.org>
Philip Hoyt <phoyt@mspect.com> wrote: >> The sum of these seven is always equal to the 'width' of the parent >> element. > Does this mean that it is proper for a block element to always scroll > or crop an amount equal to the padding inside the width of the parent > element? No, because the 'width' of the parent *is* the same as the width available to its child element. The parent's padding is *not* included in the parent's width. (Except in IE/Win, but that's a bug, and it's fixed in the latest IE6 build. This issue has been discussed a lot recently, see for example http://www.alistapart.com/stories/journey/4.html .) > Since Netscape 6 and Mozilla both scroll the distance of the combined > border and margin(*) of a div of width 100% this must be a formatting > bug. (* and padding) This behaviour is correct, although admittedly often somewhat inconvenient. -- Andrew Clover Technical Consultant 1VALUE.com AG
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