Limits of percentage based width's

Hey,

So, I have been experimenting a bit with designating percentage based width's through css (i.e. width: 85%), and was wondering just how specific I can get and still be within the "law" if you will. I have tried odd-ball percentages like 97.3% and they have worked in all the browsers I have on my comp: IE 6.0.2, Pheonix 0.4, Mozilla 1.2a, and Netscape 6.2.3. Is it okay to use percentages with decimal places like that? It seems wierd, but in the end, it works!

well... seeming as you cant do half pixels i imagine it wouldnt work with fixed widths... although with percentages, because nobody really has screen resolutions of < 100x* in thoery it probably shouldnt be a problem... but... i'd never decimal places in percentage of width, i'd stick with intergers ;)

Ultimately, I think browsers are obligated to support 3 decimal places (maybe this is only in SVG however).

http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/syndata.html#percentage-units

Which ultimately says that a percentage can start (optionally) with a "+" or "-", followed by a rational number (any integer, or a number with an arbitrary amount of decimal places), and followed by a "%".

So yeah, decimal percentages are fine. :)

Hey,

Thanks much for the replies. I had thought about the fact that you can't do half-pixels but if you think about it, if a person's screen is 1000px in length (I know it's not a real resolution, but it's easy to work with), 97.3% would be 973px. Thus it doesn't imploy any half-pixel shananigans and seems like it would work just fine.

So in the end, I am agreeing with jkd (just like always)! :)

So in the end, I am agreeing with jkd i think i am too ;)