Re: IE 6 and percentage heights in images

by Peggi & Ben Rodgers <woodduck(at)mbay.net>

Date:	Thu, 06 Sep 2001 07:22:50 -0700
To:	"'HWG Techniques'" <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
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	todo: View Thread, Original

Don't know how many of you have seen this article, but we may all start 
experiencing Chuck's frustration.  Thought I'd pass it on:

http://www.zdnet.com/smallbusiness/stories/general/0,5821,2809172,00.html

Peggi

At 08:36 PM 9/5/01 -0700, Chuck Evans wrote:
>I've got an image on my site that is 1 pixel wide by 100% high. In IE5.x, it
>displays nicely as a vertical rule extending the entire height of the table
>cell it is in.
>
>Something like:
>
><.img src="blah.gif" width="1" height="100%">
>
>Now, IE 6 comes along and the "rule" no longer works (pun intended). (It
>doesn't display in NN 4.x either, but I've been able to live with that.)
>Unfortunately, I expect IE6 to gain browser share quickly, so I'd like a
>work-around.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>(By the way, the browscap.ini file is a wonderful thing, paired with IIS 5's
>MSWC.BrowserType object. I use it to provide IE6 users with their own
>stylesheet to overcome Microsoft's friggin' decision to now make
>align="center" the default for td's.)
>
>Chuck Evans
>Webmaster
>Click2learn, Inc.
>http://home.click2learn.com

Peggi Rodgers
Web Developer
Misty Canyon Designs
Pacific Grove, CA
prodgers(at)mistycanyon.com
www.mistycanyon.com

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