CSS height 100% in firefox not working

Question

I have the following HTML and CSS that behaves totally different in Firefox and Chrome.

JSFiddle .

 .container { width: 200px; height: 50px; border: 1px solid black; display: inline-table; } .content { background-color: red; width: 30%; height: 100%; } 

 <div class="container"> <div class="content"></div> </div> <div class="container"> <div class="content"></div> </div> 

In Chrome it displays correctly but not in Firefox.

Chrome:

Firefox:

By inspecting the content div in Firefox, the height is 0.

Why does it work in Chrome and Safari, but not in Firefox? I notice that removing the display: inline-table will work but the container div will be stacked instead of inline.

Answer 1

Try changing display: inline-table; to display: inline-block; .

Answer 2

http://jsfiddle.net/yAa3y/12/

I could only get it to work when I used

.content {
    display: inline-table;
 }

Answer 3

The element does not display properly because FireFox is locking it to the size of the inner content, but I'm sure you already gathered that.

I noticed that the container height that holds the inner is fixed to 50. If you have a fixed height for the outer container, you could match the height for the inner element.

I know this isn't the dynamic solution based on percent, but it's a work around.

Answer 4

try this its working

position: absolute; 
top: 0px;
bottom: 0px;
width: 50px;