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Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition
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Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition

by Eric A. Meyer
March 2004
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
528 pages
16h 33m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

height

Synopsis

This defines the height of an element’s content area, outside of which padding, borders, and margins are added. This property is ignored for inline nonreplaced elements. Negative length and percentage values are not permitted.

Values:

<length> | <percentage> | auto | inherit

Initial value:

auto

Applies to:

block-level and replaced elements

Inherited:

no

Percentages:

calculated with respect to the height of the containing block

Computed value:

for auto and percentage values, as specified; otherwise, an absolute length, unless the property does not apply to the element (then auto)

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