<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>CSS Test: Max-height on absolutely positioned, non-replaced elements, over-constrained</title> <link rel="author" title="Microsoft" href="http://www.microsoft.com/" /> <link rel="reviewer" title="GĂ©rard Talbot" href="http://www.gtalbot.org/BrowserBugsSection/css21testsuite/" /> <!-- 2012-08-31 --> <link rel="help" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visudet.html#abs-non-replaced-height" /> <link rel="match" href="absolute-non-replaced-height-003-ref.xht" /> <meta name="assert" content="The 'bottom' value is ignored and the equation solves for the bottom value, when the values for 'top', 'bottom', 'height', 'margin-top', 'margin-bottom' add up to more than the containing blocks height." /> <style type="text/css"> #div1 { border: solid black; height: 3in; position: relative; width: 3in; } div div { background: blue; bottom: 0.5in; height: 2in; margin-bottom: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.5in; max-height: 1in; position: absolute; top: 0.5in; width: 100%; } </style> </head> <body> <p>Test passes if a blue rectangle is <strong>vertically centered</strong> in an hollow black square.</p> <div id="div1"> <div></div> </div> </body> </html>