Posted by Jeff on 06/14/89 12:01

Jonathan N. Little wrote:
> Jeff wrote:
>> I'd like to specify the width of a link. (This would be for a menu).
>>
>> You can do this easily in quirks mode but I'm having trouble in
>> standards mode.
>>
>> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
>> "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
>>
>> <div style="width: 400px;border: 1px solid black">
>> <a href="" style="width: 100%;background-color: green">should go 100%</a>
>> </div>
>>
>> What's the trick? The end desired result is to do this using lists,
>> I've shown the div as it simplifies the example.
>
> What you have won't work because A elements are inline elements and do
> not have a width property. What you can do is make it display as block
> then it would have a width.
>
> <a style="display: block; ...

Thanks to you and dorayme. About an hour after I wrote this, as I was
driving down the road, that ocured to me.

Jeff
>

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