CSS Dimension Tutorials

How to set the height of an HTML element using a percent value with CSS

The code below shows you how to set the height of an HTML element using a percent value with CSS.

<!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" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

<head>
<title>Web Development Tutorials.com</title>

<style type="text/css">
img.normal
{
height: auto;
}
img.big
{
height: 100%;
}

</style>

</head>
<body>
<p>
<img class="normal" src="imagewebdevelopmenttutorials1w244h33.jpg" width="244" height="33" />
</p>
<p>
<img class="big" src="imagewebdevelopmenttutorials1w244h33.jpg" width="244" height="33" />
</p>
</body>
</html>

The code above creates the images below.

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