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Posted by David Dorward on 11/25/01 11:47
Bill wrote:
> I just started learning about div tags today.
Not much to learn, "Its a block element. It has no semantics".
> The following works as I'd expect it to in IE, but in FF the
> background isn't displayed in the "header". If I remove
> "position:absolute;" from div#header, then the background is displayed
> in FF.
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
XHTML? Not a great idea.
> <HTML>
And not valid XHTML at that.
> div#wrapper{
> background:url('textbg.jpg') repeat-y;
> height:auto;
> }
Since you set the only child element to position: absolute, it no longer has
any influence over the height of the wrapper. This causes the effective
height to be 0. The background is set, but there is nothing to display it
on.
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