"auto" with fixed height

**jaswinder_rana** · Sep 17, 2007 07:52

Hi:

I have a box which is used to show error (something like PayPal). Now, I have fixed the height of this box(48ox) so it shows image and the error message which is one line.

But, then I encountered a problem where my error message has 4 lines and the box is still 48px.

I changed it to auto
height: auto;

it worked for 4 lines. but the problem is when it's 1 line it doesn't show the image properly because it auto fits to one line and shows only half of the image.

How can I include both auto and fixed error in the same class?

With one line

With more lines

Thanks

**DaveWoods** · Sep 17, 2007 08:40

How about min-height?

Use * html .classname and just apply height to replicate this in IE6.

**jaswinder_rana** · Sep 17, 2007 09:43

Thanks but I am not sure what you mean.

Can you please give me an example? My knowledge of CSS is not that deep.

Thanks

**jaswinder_rana** · Sep 17, 2007 10:45

Got it from an example.
thanks

Code:

/* for Internet Explorer */
/*\*/
* html .container {
height: 8em;
}
/**/

**DaveWoods** · Sep 17, 2007 10:56

Not sure without looking it up but I think that'll be targetting IE5.2 on the mac which I personally ignore now anyway.

Try something like this

Code:

<!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>Min Height Example</title>
<style type="text/css">
* {
    padding: 0;
    margin: 0;
}
body {
    font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
    padding: 10px;
}
#container {
    padding: 10px;
    min-height: 80px;
    width: 280px;
    background-color: #CCC;
}
* html #container {
    height: 80px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<p>Here's some text</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Using min-height initially will allow all standards browsers that support it to expand.

IE6 treats height as min-height anyway so the second rule targets just IE6

Hope that helps.

**Dan Schulz** · Sep 17, 2007 12:59

As Dave said, you don't need to worry about Mac-IE anymore. It's a dead browser - As Vinnie Garcia (vgarcia) says, let it stay dead.

**jaswinder_rana** · Sep 17, 2007 14:45

Thank you all.

It worked.

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