- From: Andrew Fedoniouk <news@terrainformatica.com>
- Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 20:27:30 -0700
- To: "Lachlan Hunt" <lachlan.hunt@iinet.net.au>
- Cc: <www-style@w3.org>
Hi, Lachlan,
I think that you should add also
overflow:scroll
Just in case. No?
Andrew Fedoniouk.
http://terrainformatica.com
>
> Richard York wrote:
> > Is that the consensus then? There is no way to
> > make the height truly fluid and have margins too?
>
> Yes, there is if you read my previous post [1]. Although, now that
> I've had time to test it, I've made a few minor corrections — Relative
> positioning doesn't work as I thought it would, and I forgot about the
> width shrink wrapping the content when position is absolute.
>
> div {
> position: absolute;
> top: 0;
> right: 0;
> bottom: 0;
> left: 0;
>
> padding: 10px;
> margin: 10px;
> border: 1px solid black;
> }
>
> This stretches the content to the full height and width of the
> containing block, without the margins overflowing. It should work in
> any standards compliant UA; it definately works in Mozilla 1.6 (which
> is all I have available to test in right now) You may be able to find
> some kind of hack to get it to work in all UAs, including IE, perhaps
> using nested divs, etc... but that's not appropriate discussion for this
> list.
>
> [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2004May/0475.html
>
> --
> Lachlan Hunt
>
> lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au
> http://www.lachy.id.au/
>
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