CSS bug

"Steven Pemberton" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.amaya.general
Organization CWI/W3C
Message-ID <[email protected]>
The enclosed XHTML document shows up a CSS bug that I run into regularly  
with Amaya.

My theory is that "height: 100%" is not working for the divs.

It is I admit a gruesome document consisting of loads of nested divs. I  
apologise.  But there is method to the madness. The technique is this:

    <div class="hn"><p>2009</p></div><div class="h"> ... more stuff here  
...</div>

The idea is that these two divs will be put next to each other  
(h=horizontal, n=number)

	div.hn {height: 100%; width: 49%; float: left }
	div.h  {height: 100%; width: auto;}

"... more stuff here ..." contains two divs that will be placed above each  
other (v=vertical):

    <div class="vn"><p>2008</p></div> <div class="v"> ... yet more here ...  
</div>

    div.v  {height: 50%; width: 100%; }
    div.vn {height: 50%; width: 100%; }

The "yet more here" contains another two 'h' class divs, and so on ad  
nauseam.

An hn has additionally:
	 border-right: 2px blue solid;
and likewise a vn has:
	 border-bottom: 2px red solid;

Apart from that there is an all-encompassing div surrounding the lot  
(class="a") with a big black border.

As you will see in Amaya, the blue borders are too short, making me  
suspect the problem is with height. But maybe I shouldn't have said that  
lest it send you on a wild-goose chase.

The problem may be with my CSS, I admit. I call to my defense a number of  
mainstream browsers that do seem to do what I expect.

Thanks!

Best wishes,

Steven Pemberton
paper-diag-simple.html (text/html, 2.1 KB)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
      "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
  <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
  <title>Paper</title>
  <style type="text/css">
   div.a {background-color: white; margin: 1em;
          width: 80%; height: 7em;
          font-size: 400%; font-weight: bold; 
          border: 0.1em black solid;}
   div.h, div.v, div.hn, div.vn {
          padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: center;
          overflow: hidden}
   div.v  {height: 50%; width: 100%; font-size: 80%}
   div.h  {height: 100%; width: auto; font-size: 80% }
   div.vn {height: 50%; width: 100%; 
           border-bottom: 2px red solid;}
   div.hn {height: 100%; width: 49%; float: left; 
           border-right: 2px blue solid}
   div p {margin-top: 20%}
  </style>
  <meta name="generator" content="Amaya, see http://www.w3.org/Amaya/" />
</head>

<body>
<h2>Paper</h2>

<div class="a">
  <div class="hn"><p>2009</p></div>
  <div class="h">
    <div class="vn"><p>2008</p></div>
    <div class="v">
      <div class="hn"><p>2007</p></div>
      <div class="h">
<!-- comment this section out for the simplest case -->
        <div class="vn"><p>2006</p></div>
        <div class="v">
          <div class="hn"><p>2005</p></div>
          <div class="h">
            <div class="vn"><p>2004</p></div>
            <div class="v">
              <div class="hn"><p>2003</p></div>
              <div class="h">
                <div class="vn"><p>2002</p></div>
                <div class="v">
                  <div class="hn"><p>2001</p></div>
                  <div class="h">
                    <div class="vn"><p>2000</p></div>
                    <div class="v">
                      <div class="hn"><p>x</p></div>
                      <div class="h"></div>
                    </div>
                  </div>
                </div>
              </div>
            </div>
          </div>
        </div>
<!-- end of commented out section -->
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
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