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Safari bug: min-height on absolute elements

Just discovered a rather annoying bug in version 1.3 of the Safari browser. The problem occurs when min-height is specified on an absolutely positioned element. In this scenario, Safari completely ignores the min-height declaration. This is a major failing of the W3C CSS 2.1 spec, which states:

[min-height] applies to all elements but non-replaced inline elements, table columns, and column groups

The good news is that this bug appears to have been fixed in version 2 of the browser, which is available to OS X Tiger users.

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