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Beaudoin

Hi. I'm wondering if it's possible to inherit the height of a parent where the parent's height is set to auto? What I would like is the child element below to size itself to the parent, but really, the content element is what sets the height. Is this possible?

For example:


div#parent{
height: auto; /* yeah yeah... I know that this is redundant since it's the default. :-) */
}

div#child{
height: inherit;
border:#000 1px solid;
}

div#content{
height:auto;
}

HTML:

<div id=\"parent\">
<div id=\"child\"></div>
<div id=\"content\">
Oh... the misery of floating elements.
</div>
</div>

Edwin

You meant "height: 100%"? ;)

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