Re: [CSS21] percentage width in CSS2.1: 10.2 note for absolutely positioned elements

Ingo Chao wrote:
> Note: For absolutely positioned elements whose containing block is
> based on a block-level element, the percentage is calculated with
> respect to the width of the padding box of that element.
> 
> Why was this note not added to 10.5 Content height?

Recorded as Issue 50, assumed editorial.
   http://csswg.inkedblade.net/spec/css2.1#issue-50

The note was added on 3 March 2005, along with the previous sentence
about percentage widths for shrink-wrapped elements.

~fantasai

Received on Monday, 16 June 2008 16:01:02 UTC