<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>CSS Test: inherit applied on padding set with em</title> <link rel="author" title="Gérard Talbot" href="http://www.gtalbot.org/BrowserBugsSection/css21testsuite/"> <link rel="help" title="8.4 Padding properties" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/box.html#padding-properties"> <link rel="help" title="4.3.2 Length" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#length-units"> <link rel="help" title="6.2.1 The 'inherit' value" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/cascade.html#value-def-inherit"> <link rel="match" href="reference/padding-em-inherit-001-ref.htm"> <meta content="The 'em' unit is equal to the computed value of the 'font-size' property of the element on which it is used. When inherit keyword is used, the property takes the same computed value - a length value in this testcase - as the property for the element's parent." name="assert"> <meta content="image" name="flags"> <style type="text/css"> body {margin: 8px;} p { font: 1em/1.25 serif; margin: 1em 0em; } div#grand-parent { font-size: 32px; width: 400px; } div#parent { background-color: green; font-size: 24px; padding: 2em 3em 1em 4em; /* 48px 72px 24px 96px */ } div#child { font-size: 40px; padding: inherit; /* What is inherited is a computed length value: so it is 48px 72px 24px 96px and not 80px 120px 40px 160px */ } div#abs-pos-overlapping-green { left: 200px; /* 8px (body's margin-left) + 96px (#parent's padding-left) + 96px (#child's padding-left) ================== 200px */ position: absolute; top: 168px; } /* max(8px, 16px) (margin collapsing between body's margin-top and p's margin-top) + 20px (first line) + 20px (second line) + 16px (p's margin-bottom) + 48px (#parent's padding-top) + 48px (#child's padding-top) ================== 168px */ </style> </head> <body> <p>Test passes if there is a filled<br> green rectangle and no red.</p> <div id="grand-parent"> <div id="parent"> <div id="child"><img src="support/100x100-red.png" alt="Image download support must be enabled"></div> </div> </div> <div id="abs-pos-overlapping-green"><img src="support/swatch-green.png" width="100" height="100" alt="Image download support must be enabled"></div> </body> </html>