div height problem

I have been unable to get a div to have a height less than about 20 pix in
IE6.
Is there some css that I can use as an in-line style that will guarantee
that the empty div that it is applied to will have 5 pixels height?

TIA
Brian Tozer

I have been unable to get a div to have a height less than about 20
pix in
IE6. Is there some css that I can use as an in-line style that will
guarantee
that the empty div that it is applied to will have 5 pixels height?

You need to set the font-size to something small, eg. 1px, since IE
gives all divs the height of one line of text even if there are no
characters present.

Worry a bit about users who set a minimum font size. I think you'll be
OK as IE doesn't allow users to do this, and other browsers that do
allow it don't impose it when the div is empty.

--Phil.

Thanks Phil.
Brian

<phil_gg04 (AT) treefic (DOT) com> wrote

I have been unable to get a div to have a height less than about 20
pix in
IE6. Is there some css that I can use as an in-line style that will
guarantee
that the empty div that it is applied to will have 5 pixels height?

You need to set the font-size to something small, eg. 1px, since IE
gives all divs the height of one line of text even if there are no
characters present.

Worry a bit about users who set a minimum font size. I think you'll be
OK as IE doesn't allow users to do this, and other browsers that do
allow it don't impose it when the div is empty.

--Phil.