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What does 100% mean in CSS?

Henning Koch
March 30, 2021Software engineer at makandra GmbH
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The attached article Show archive.org snapshot examines what the percent unit (%) is relative to in CSS

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The article does a great job of visualizing the dependencies. The TLDR is:

Own property % of
height parent height
width parent width
top parent height
left parent width
margin-top parent width
margin-left parent width
padding-top parent width
padding-left parent width
translate-top own height
translate-left own width
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Henning Koch
March 30, 2021Software engineer at makandra GmbH
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Posted by Henning Koch to makandra dev (2021-03-30 08:51)
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