- From: Chris Casciano <10sball@placenamehere.com>
- Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 14:18:02 -0400
- To: <www-style@w3.org>
on 10/24/01 1:04 PM, Jesse McCarthy at mccarthy36@earthlink.net wrote: > Chris, I think you would be best served by first clarifying your own mental > model. > > CSS does not "know" anything. CSS is a language for instructing the user > agent > what to do. Yes, i agree. > The user agent knows the width and height of the viewport. Using > CSS, you can instruct the user agent to format elements such as HTML and BODY > to assume the entire width and height of the viewport. My first reaction would be that you couldn't but i can't say i've ever spent any effort looking into it before myself. After a few quick tests it seems that it takes both elements set to height:100% to get the body (which it the containing box that we are concerned with) [body 100%] http://placenamehere.com/temp/bodycheck2.html [html 100%] http://placenamehere.com/temp/bodycheck3.html [both] http://placenamehere.com/temp/bodycheck4.html and from this point we are stuck, as you mentioned below. > My complaint is that > once I've done that, CSS provides me no mechanism for centering content > vertically within those elements. > > Is that not correct? > -- name://chris aka://10sball http://placenamehere.com
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