Sent by Eric B. Bednarz on 27 February 2002 07:07
On 27 Feb 2002, at 12:40, Rijk van Geijtenbeek wrote:
> On Wednesday, February 27, 2002, Eric wrote:
>
> [..]
>
> > Where things gets fuzzy is in the definition of a containing block
> > for an element that doesn't have any positioned ancestors. In such a
> > case, the containing block is the root element.
>
> Well, only in two cases:
> - the element is positioned
Only if it's not a descendand of another positioned element.
<body><div style="position:relative;height:20px;"><div
style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;height:20%;">blah</div>...
The paragraph should be 4 px high.
Cheers, Eric
