126410 - css style error, on property height in DIV element

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect)

Description

[Elia Noris]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020204
BuildID:    

if you set a DIV element to have a certain height in percent MOZILLA won't
respect it, this is the slice of my CSS file that will be erroneously interpreted

DIV.menu {border-style:	ridge;
	 border-color:
#88c5FF;
	 float: left;
	 padding: 20px;
	 background-color: #AAE;
	 color: #EEE;
	 height: 90%;
	 width: 28%;
	 left: 	0px }

if the value is expressed in pixel (e.g 600px) the problem will not occur

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.create an HTML page with a <DIV class="menu">
2.open it with Mozilla
3.

Actual Results:  the div lenght will be the same as the content of the div element

Expected Results:  to have a lenght equal to 90% of my browser window

Comment 1

[Marc Boullet]

I think this one is invalid as explained in bug #86390.

However, the full page would help to determine the containing block, etc ...

Comment 2

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Since there's no testcase given, marking INVALID.  If you have a testcase that
shows its a valid bug, in light of the comments in bug 86390 comment 6, please
reopen.

Comment 3

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

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