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DaveX
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height attribute? - 9/28/2008 18:26:42
I've been working on a page where I've created a container with a set height and width. Here's the CSS:
#client {width: 550px; height: 489px; font-size: 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;}
It looks and works great except in Safari which ignores the height completely. am I doing this wrong? I've read some things suggesting height is not an actual attribute and should never be used (mostly in Mac/Safari-friendly forums). If this is right, how do you control the height?
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Tailslide
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RE: height attribute? - 9/29/2008 2:22:50
Can we have a link to see it in context? Might be something else going on as can't think of a reason Safari would ignore height. It used to not support min-height but does now.
Personally I tend not to use height unless it's for something that can't increase in height like an image. Trouble with height is that if the user increases the text size in their browser it can break in modern browsers.
What I tend to do for divs that have scalable content and that can't just be the height of their content is to use a mix of min-height for modern browsers (so that the div can expand but will be a minimum height of x) and then in an IE stylesheet I'll use height as IE treats height as min-height anyway!
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