Posted by Els on 07/31/05 01:21

Neredbojias wrote:

> With neither quill nor qualm, Els quothed:
>
> This stupid newsreader accidently deleted your last reply as I was going
> to answer it but I remember the gist of it.
>
> You said something like 'I thought the content was the point...'

Almost ;-)
I thought the point was to make the div's height extend to encompass
the content. IE does that, even if you give the div a height of say
1px. That is, if you don't add stuff like overflow properties.

> It is. I just made an IE hack for "position:fixed;" which is why I know
> at least sometimes IE honors the height parameter.

It does honour that parameter, if the content isn't too high, and if
no overflow property is set.

> Perhaps you need to
> include an overflow statement, or width or something else, but I've done
> it both under transitional and strict doctypes with fully-validating
> pages.

I wouldn't expect anything else :-)

> Basically, the trick was to put a div in another overflow-auto
> div. Maybe the inner div expanded with content, but that had no height
> setting. Also, maybe width differs reactively from height (-though I
> don't think so.)

I'm still not sure what the actual objective of your hack was though.
Were you trying to make IE expand a div's height based on the content?
Or were you trying to do the opposite, and make IE honour the set
height and have the content scroll?

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