Home/ Questions/Q 174857
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-05-11T13:35:50+00:00

I’ve got a really frustrating problem with a web application I work on (I

  • 0

I’ve got a really frustrating problem with a web application I work on (I didn’t originally write it). It uses frames for the layout scarily enough. The problem I’m having is that all elements with a background colour and border set via CSS default to 100% width. I’ve just tested div elements, paragraph elements etc.

I removed the stylesheet completely and then tested it and I had the same problem, so it’s not the stylesheet causing the problem.

I wrote a quick test to make sure it wasn’t conflicting code and used the same doctype and xmlns as ours – I get the same problem. Here’s the example code.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN'> <html xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'> <head> <style type='text/css'>     #test {         border:1px solid #ccc;         background-color:#ddd;     } </style> </head> <body>     <div id='test'>         Test information!     </div> </body> </html>

Any ideas?

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. I think this is required by HTML/CSS. Block elements extend the full width unless there is something to stop them.

    (FF has the same behaviour.)

    • 0