Percentage Height not working

[Les Juby]

I am trying to adjust the window/table size of a website
(www.worklaw.co.za) which has made use of DIV tags with its settings
embedded in an CSS file.

The client wants its width and height to adjust according to dynamic
screen size, and I have been able to adjust the width to a percentage
value which works fine. But if I try do the same with the height it
shows some very strange results squashing the field to display about 3
lines.

The following is copied out of the css file:

.Content {position:relat ive;
left:70px;
height:388px;
width:90%;
top:15px;
overflow:auto;
scrollbar-arrow-color:navy
border-style:solid;
border-width:2px;
border-color:
black #E9E9E9 #E9E9E9 black;
padding:3;
}

I've changed the width to 90% as you can see, but that hasn't helped.
Any ideas why a percentage wouldn't work for height?

Brendon

[Barbara de Zoete]

On Sat, 01 Oct 2005 19:36:44 +0200, Robi <[e-mail] > wrote:

please excuse my ignorance. I was indeed taking the lack of units as the
same invalid statement, which, if I may add, nobody actually cared to
point out as you did. I don't care how many "Robi is an idiot" or "Robi got no clue" posts
I get, as long as people can learn from misconceptions.

It is hard to know what one really knows and one doesn't know for oneself, let
alone for others. So if you think you disagree with a statement from someone
else, ask the other why they think that is true, rather than letting them guess
at some lacuna in your knowledge. That way you can learn without looking, erm,
rather ... :-) never mind.
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[Gérard Talbot]

Spartanicus a écrit :

Gérard Talbot <ne***********@ gtalbot.org> wrote:

padding:3
is equivalent to writing
padding:0

Incorrect, "padding:3" should be ignored.

Yep. There might be cascading declarations (and valid ones) in an local
stylesheet, in an external stylesheet which will be applied when the
inline declaration is ignored.

Gérard
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[Gérard Talbot]

Barbara de Zoete a écrit :

Gérard: so it equals 'padding:0;'

Well, I changed my mind and I acknowledge Spartanicus is right. The
{padding:3} declaration should be ignored. The computed style might end
up being 50px or any value... it depends on cascading [valid+parsable]
declarations.

Gérard
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