min-height
As has been documented elsewhere, you can use expressions to mimic some nice CSS features that Mozilla already supports.
My quick min-height workaround:
height: expression('32px'); min-height: 32px;
Since IE's height property behaves like min-height, I just set it using expression so that IE is the only browser to recognize the property. All other browsers should see min-height and use accordingly.
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This workaround is the simplest most effective way to achieve the min-height affect accross NS, IE, & Mozzi.
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Hey there,
I love the solution to the min-height ie problem. Just got a question about it, i want to make min-height:100%; using the height: expression('32px'); solution you mentioned. So how would i do this?
I tried to replace 32px with 100% but doesn't seem to do anything, i will continue to have a play with the code until i recieve a replya and if i solve it, i shall let you know :)
Jay
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Anyone know if this works on the IE 7 beta?
It doesn't. height no longer acts like min-height in IE7. Unfortunately, as of Beta 2 Preview, min-height isn't available yet.
With min-height likely to be available in the final release of IE7 (see http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/01/31/520883.aspx#522483 ) and height no longer acting like min-height in IE7, will this workaround cause problems when IE7 is released? I mean, do you know if IE7 will read both "height: expression('32px'); " and "min-height: 32px;" and then behave strangely, or will "expression" not be supported in IE7?
I'm not expecting anyone to know the answer to this just yet, as we only can find out what is released by Microsoft programmers and IE7 testers, but if someone does find out in future, it would be nice to know! Considering that Microsoft are trying to make their browser more standards compliant, I'm guessing it would be likely they would be removing some of these proprietary methods.
It seems to me that conditional comments are the best solution to obtaining min-height in IE 6 and lower. Particularly because the 'expression' property is proprietary to M$ and will thus invalidate the style sheet.
-AP
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