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Minimum width posted 24th April 2002

A recent thread on css-d addressed the issue of assigning a minimum width to a box, for instance one might want to set a box width to be 60% (in a nice liquid layout) but want to stop it being less than 400px wide.

The CSS2 min-width property springs to mind as a solution, but isn’t supported by IE5.5, so here is a cross-browser solution.

Dickster wrote:

There is also a cool little script to do this at http://and.doxdesk.com/software/js/minmax.html written by Andrew Clover.

24 Apr 2002, 04:28 GMT
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22 Apr 2004, 21:08 GMT

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