1 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
2 <html>
3 <head>
4 <title>CSS Test: Using percentages with 'max-width' relative to the containing block</title>
5 <link rel="author" title="Microsoft" href="http://www.microsoft.com/">
6 <link rel="help" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visudet.html#min-max-widths">
7 <meta name="flags" content="">
8 <meta name="assert" content="The percentage is calculated in relation to the containing block.">
9 <style type="text/css">
10 div div
11 {
12 height: 1in;
13 }
14 #div1
15 {
16 width: 2in;
17 }
18 #div2
19 {
20 background-color: blue;
21 max-width: 50%;
22 width: 4in;
23 }
24 #div3
25 {
26 background: orange;
27 width: 1in;
28 }
29 </style>
30 </head>
31 <body>
32 <p>Test passes if the blue and orange boxes below are the same width.</p>
33 <div id="div1">
34 <div id="div2"></div>
35 <div id="div3"></div>
36 </div>
37 </body>
38 </html>