- From: Jesse McCarthy <mccarthy36@earthlink.net>
- Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 14:37:36 -0400
- To: www-style@w3.org
Chris Casciano <10sball@placenamehere.com> wrote on 10/24/01 2:18:02 PM: >> 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) Chris, the only way to know is to read the specification, in this case at http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/ . You may especially want to look at Section 9 Visual formatting model. Please note that I am using CSS 2 as the basis for this entire discussion, regardless of the capabilities of any browsers.
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