Re: [CSS21] percentage values of 'top'

Was that recently, like within the last week? Because when I checked  
with a recent Nightly, I could not get anything out of percentage  
values on 'top', unless the parent had a set height.

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On Jun 5, 2009, at 11:48 AM, David Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com> wrote:

> This issue has already been fixed in WebKit.
>
> dave
> (hyatt@apple.com)
>
> On Jun 5, 2009, at 1:36 PM, Anton Prowse wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>
>

Received on Friday, 5 June 2009 22:37:17 UTC