The World’s Highest Website

Welcome to the World’s Highest Website! Currently, it’s 18.939 kilometers high (that’s about 11.77 miles), and an enormous pleasure to scroll. Enjoy.

For fine print and technical details, either scroll down by yourself or take the elevator, which offers light speed hypertext transportation for free.

Cool. Restart? Scroll up (we’ll wait for you), use the elevator, or press Ctrl and Pos1.

For the rest of the crew, here’s some fine print. This website is a CSS experiment. Due to its nature, there are some accessibility limitations, but anybody just slightly experienced will understand. The technical and design principles of this site are simple:

One HTML container;
pure CSS styling;
no workarounds, filters, or hacks.

Known, yet interesting issues:

For the record – Gecko-based browsers like Firefox show an interesting behavior when you want to make the site any higher (than precisely 18.939583 kilometers, that is), namely by “shrinking” or “collapsing” its main container;
Internet Explorer doesn’t accept internal references behind the real action, and it’s unclear if the container’s height really is 18.939 kilometers (though it’s damn high – or long – nonetheless).

If you can come up with fixes or an even higher element, the formatting of which is broadly supported, email info at worlds-highest-website.com. Most likely, there’s some reward. And otherwise, if it’s found, it’ll be used ;)

WHWS is presented by frontend artist Jens Meiert and the secret “Flying Standardistas Club”. Design: Alessandro Lettieri. This website uses Google Analytics.