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: Calculating percentage based width off of the parent container</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#the-width-property">
7 <meta name="flags" content="">
8 <meta name="assert" content="Percentage is calculated with respect to the width of the generated boxes containing block.">
9 <style type="text/css">
10 div
11 {
12 height: 1in;
13 }
14 #div1
15 {
16 width: 2in;
17 }
18 div div
19 {
20 background-color: orange;
21 width: 50%;
22 }
23 #div2
24 {
25 background-color: blue;
26 width: 1in;
27 }
28 </style>
29 </head>
30 <body>
31 <p>Test passes if the orange and blue boxes are the same width.</p>
32 <div id="div1">
33 <div></div>
34 </div>
35 <div id="div2"></div>
36 </body>
37 </html>