Sent by Zoe Gillenwater on 2 January 2004 12:12
J. King wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 18:19:07 -0500, Bruce Cameron
> [EMAIL-REMOVED]> wrote:
>
>> OK, this is most probably a well-known hack but not to me. I want to
>> absolutely position an object at the left bottom of the container.
>> But the container may vary in height, and if it is small this
>> object overlaps another floated at the top left. Solution seemed to
>> be min-height. Fine in the Gecko, but IE does not recognize this for
>> a div. So, give the object an actual height, a fix I found on the
>> net. Works for IE, and if the container grows then the object moves
>> down to the new bottom. But in the Gecko, that height is fixed -
>> added content lets the container grow all right, to hold the
>> content, but the absolute positioned object does not move down to
>> new bottom..
>
>
> You may find this of interest.
> http://www.pixy.cz/blogg/clanky/cssunderscorehack/
If you want to use a hack to just feed WinIE the fixed dimension, you
have a variety of hacks you can use. The hack mentioned above works and
is simple but will not validate. If this is a concern to you, try one
of the hacks here:
http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=CssHacks
Zoe
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Zoe M. Gillenwater
Design Specialist
Highway Safety Research Center
http://www.hsrc.unc.edu
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