title: Fluid CSS layout breaks in firefox and IE11
body: <p>I want to position an image container next to a text box having the image always match the height of the text:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;-         50%        -&gt;  &lt;-         50%        -&gt;         
  +----------------------+  +----------------------+
  | Lorem ipsum dolor si |  | some                 |
  | t amet, consectetuer |  | image                |
  | adipiscingelit. Aene |  |                      |
  | an commodoligula ege |  |                      |
  | t dolor.             |  |                      |
  +----------------------+  +----------------------+
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>vs</p>
  
  <pre><code>+------------+  +------------+
  | Lorem ipsu |  | some       |
  | m dolor si |  | image      |
  | t amet, co |  |            |
  | nsectetuer |  |            |    Reduce
  | adipiscing |  |            |&lt;-- browser
  | elit. Aene |  |            |    width
  | an commodo |  |            |
  | ligula ege |  |            |
  | t dolor.   |  |            |
  +------------+  +------------+
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>To achieve this I wrap both containers in a <code>div</code> and display the image as a background-image:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;div class="outerTable"&gt;
      &lt;div&gt;Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer&lt;/div&gt;
      &lt;div class="image"&gt;
          &lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
      &lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>with the following style:</p>
  
  <pre><code>.outerTable {
      width: 100%;
      display: table;
  }
  .outerTable &gt; div {
      display: table-cell;
      border: 10px solid transparent;
      background-clip: padding-box;
      position: relative;
      background-color: #fff;
      padding: 2%;
      width: 50%;
  }
  .image {
      background-color: #fff;
  }
  .image &gt; div {
      background-image: url(http://lorempixel.com/500/300/abstract/4);
      background-size: cover;
      position: absolute;
      top: 0;
      bottom: 0;
      left: 0;
      right: 0;
      padding: 6%;
      background-clip: content-box;
      background-position: 0 0;
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>A working example can be found here: <a href="http://jsfiddle.net/KxFUL/" rel="noreferrer">http://jsfiddle.net/KxFUL/</a></p>
  
  <p>This works well in Chrome, Safari and Opera. But in FireFox the image covers the whole page and in IE11 the image is not shown at all…</p>
  
  <p>Am I missing something – wrong concept altogether? Any ideas? Any different solutions?</p>