Posted by kaczmar2 on 06/11/07 13:58

Hello,

I am trying to make a simple bar chart for a web page. For this, I
need to calculate the widths of divs in pixels, and then display
them. They have no text content; I just need them to show up and
colored bars. The code is like this:

<div style="background-color:#000000; width: 50px;" />
....
<div style="background-color:#000000; width: 75px;" />

This shows up no problem in IE6+, but not in Firefox 2.

If I put text content in the div, it displays, but it sizes to just
fit the content. (This follows from the CSS documentation of
"display:inline";) but I need to show the absolute size in pixels

Any clues as to how to get the div to show up with the background
color?

Thanks.

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