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Update the support of percentage in documentation of Height And Width file #2079

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Expand Up @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ A component's height and width determine its size on the screen.

## Fixed Dimensions

The general way to set the dimensions of a component is by adding a fixed `width` and `height` to style. All dimensions in React Native are unitless, and represent density-independent pixels.
The general way to set the dimensions of a component is by adding a fixed `width` and `height` to style. All dimensions in React Native are not unitless it supports percentage and represents density-independent pixels.

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From the technical point of view dimensions in React Native are unitless - every method related to the dimensions will return an integer (not a string with unit, like for example in CSS) which is a density pixels value. Later in the process many different operations on that value can happen (for example: multiplication by Pixel Ratio, conversion).

For arranging views React Native uses Yoga layout which besides DP and percentage allow specifying "auto" as value (which is also a default). You can find more information about the supported values in the Yoga documentation.


```SnackPlayer name=Height%20and%20Width
import React from 'react';
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