<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN"> <html lang="en"> <head> <title>CSS Block Box Model: block widths with position:static</title> <style type="text/css"> .control { display: inline; font: 1em/1 Ahem, sans-serif; background: red; color: white; } .outer { position: static; width: 300px; height: 100px; background: red; } .inner { width: 200%; height: 200%; font: 100px/1 Ahem; color: green; } </style> </head> <body> <div class="control">Ahem_font_required_for_this_test.</div> <div class="outer"> <div class="inner">XXX</div> </div> </body> </html>