271458 - The height size of the div does not change

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Klaus]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ru-RU; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0

In the page at http://www.terra.es/personal7/abcsex/div/, size of height in 
the black div should increase if the object inside the container has the 
greater size. Thesize of height in FireFox remains former.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Klaus]

Attachment: style height in div in FireFox

Comment 2

[Klaus]

Attachment: style height in div in Internet Explorer 6.0

Comment 3

[Klaus]

Attachment: style height in div in Internet Opera 7.23

Comment 4

[Bill Mason]

(In reply to comment #0)
> In the page at http://www.terra.es/personal7/abcsex/div/, size of height in 
> the black div should increase if the object inside the container has the 
> greater size.

No, that's exactly what should not happen.  If you define a height, it's an
absolute value.

That IE expands the container to fit the content is one of it's long-standing
CSS bugs.

Comment 5

[Klaus]

(In reply to comment #4)
> No, that's exactly what should not happen.  If you define a height, it's an
> absolute value.
> That IE expands the container to fit the content is one of it's long-standing
> CSS bugs.

As then to set minimal (not absolute) height for div for FireFox, that it all 
browsers would understand?