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Post #196,610
by JayMehaffey
2/28/05 11:06:35 AM
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New Re: Makes sense for the most part
But the last question is why the XHTML acts different for DIV elements than the HTML 4.0 transitional documents? This occurs in both browsers and I'm not sure why the change.

I'm not sure about your specific example, but there are a lot of little differences between XHTML and HTML 4.x in the obscure corners of the language. This is not always because of differences in the standards. Both Microsoft and the Mozilla foundation took XHTMl as a chance to fix some long standing bugs in their rendering that they didn't fix previously because it would break existing pages.

Jay
Post #196,616
by ChrisR
2/28/05 11:35:12 AM
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New Know it fixes problems related to well-formedness
But I ran the 4 examples though the W3C validator and they all check out. Which begs the question of why the height attribute on the DIV tag is ignored in the XHTML document.
Post #196,625
by JayMehaffey
2/28/05 12:05:05 PM
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New Seems to be the lack of unit identifier
The CSS spec requires that measurements have a unit identifier, such as px for pixels or pt for points.

It appears to be a case where Firefox just assumes pixels when rendering HTML but ignores the incorrect declaration when rendering in XHTML. This passes the W3 validator because the CSS validator is a seperate utility.

If you put ".div {height:20;width:100%;overflow:auto;}" into the CSS validator it kicks it out for not having a unit on the height.

Jay
Post #196,627
by ChrisR
2/28/05 12:07:48 PM
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New That was what I was trying to grok. Thanks.
     Question on Height attributes for DIV/SPAN tags - (ChrisR) - (12) - Feb. 26, 2005, 12:59:54 PM EST
         OS X Firefox has scrollbars for HTML 4.0 DIV - (SpiceWare) - Feb. 26, 2005, 03:52:06 PM EST
         Re: Question on Height attributes for DIV/SPAN tags - (admin) - (1) - Feb. 26, 2005, 08:52:51 PM EST
             That'll do the trick. Thanks. -NT - (ChrisR) - Feb. 26, 2005, 11:05:30 PM EST
         Height means nothing on a span tag - (JayMehaffey) - (6) - Feb. 28, 2005, 09:07:21 AM EST
             Makes sense for the most part - (ChrisR) - (5) - Feb. 28, 2005, 09:43:14 AM EST
                 Re: Makes sense for the most part - (JayMehaffey) - (3) - Feb. 28, 2005, 11:06:35 AM EST
                     Know it fixes problems related to well-formedness - (ChrisR) - (2) - Feb. 28, 2005, 11:35:12 AM EST
                         Seems to be the lack of unit identifier - (JayMehaffey) - (1) - Feb. 28, 2005, 12:05:05 PM EST
                             That was what I was trying to grok. Thanks. -NT - (ChrisR) - Feb. 28, 2005, 12:07:48 PM EST
                 Have a rummage in here. - (static) - Feb. 28, 2005, 10:39:10 PM EST
         20 what? - (ubernostrum) - (1) - March 3, 2005, 04:53:40 PM EST
             Well, you'd think that have a default. - (ChrisR) - March 3, 2005, 04:55:15 PM EST

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