Posted by dorayme on 11/24/83 11:46

In article <ZSt5g.24534$mh.14669@tornado.ohiordc.rr.com>,
restamp@hotmail.com (Rob Stampfli) wrote:

> In article <44559756$1@quokka.wn.com.au>,
> ironcorona <iron.corona@gmail.com> wrote:
> >Rob Stampfli wrote:
> >> Suppose you have a container of unknown or variable size.
> >> How would you specify a link tag inside it such that it
> >> takes up the entire container
> >
> >in the css:
> >
> >a {display:block; width:100%; height:100%;}
> >
> >I only discovered the fun things you can do with the anchor tag, if you
> >set it to display as a block, a few weeks ago.
>
> This doesn't seem to work for me. Take a look at:
>
> <http://cboh.org/spantest.html>
>

Try this:

<table><tbody><tr>
<td style="width: 100px;height:100px"> &nbsp;</td>
<td style="width: 200px;">
<a style="display: block; height:
100%;padding-top:50%;padding-bottom:50%;"
href="spantest.html">Hello World</a>
</td>
<td style="width: 100px;">&nbsp;</td>
</tr></tbody></table>

(I just added to your code...)

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dorayme

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