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<title>CSS Test: Calculating percentage based width off of the parent container</title>
<link rel="author" title="Microsoft" href="http://www.microsoft.com/" />
<link rel="reviewer" title="Gérard Talbot" href="http://www.gtalbot.org/BrowserBugsSection/css21testsuite/" /> <!-- 2012-11-07 -->
<link rel="help" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visudet.html#the-width-property" />
<link rel="match" href="max-width-percentage-001-ref.xht" />
<meta name="assert" content="Percentage is calculated with respect to the width of the generated boxes containing block." />
<style type="text/css">
div
{
height: 1in;
}
#div1
{
width: 2in;
}
div div
{
background-color: blue;
width: 50%;
}
#div2
{
background-color: orange;
width: 1in;
}
</style>
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<body>
<p>Test passes if the blue and orange squares have the <strong>same width</strong>.</p>
<div id="div1">
<div></div>
</div>
<div id="div2"></div>
</body>
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