- From: Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:36:25 -0400
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote: > Sure. For the first one, concerning floats: > > . . . > > In both of these situations, you don't know the height of the parent > and don't want to assign a definite height, as the other contents have > unpredictable heights. But you still want some things to be equal to > the height of their parents, but you can't do that currently. Ah, I see. That does make sense, thanks. Absolute positioning is a partial solution, but imposes its own set of headaches (most notably, requiring a fixed width).
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