- From: Anton Prowse <prowse@moonhenge.net>
- Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2009 20:36:50 +0200
- CC: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
Jorrit Vermeiren wrote: > It looks like this behaviour is "just" a vestige of CSS2. That says > the following about percentage values: "For 'top' and 'bottom', if the > height of the containing block is not specified explicitly (i.e., it > depends on content height), the percentage value is interpreted like > 'auto'." [1] Indeed. My apologies to the list for not doing my research before posting; this issue has already been raised before[1], and fantasai responded saying,[2] > The spec was actually changed so that percentages for top/bottom *do* > work. Behavior in this case was previously explicitly undefined: > http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/changes.html#q53 > So that means at some point the browser implementors discussed it and > decided it should be possible. I guess it just hasn't been done yet :) The corresponding bug in Gecko is [3], in which Boris Zbarsky does indeed state[4] that the behaviour currently implemented in Gecko is that specified in CSS2. [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2007Aug/0139.html [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2007Aug/0152.html [3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=260348 [4] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=260348#c14 Thanks, Anton Prowse http://dev.moonhenge.net
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