Or change it to height: 0.1em; orso, minimal size of anything displayable is 1px.
The 0.05 em you are using means, get the current font size in pixels of this elements and give me 5% of it. Which for 12 pixels returns 0.6 pixels which is too little to display. if you would turn up the font size of the div to atleast 20pixels it would display fine. I suppose Chrome doesnt round up sizes to be atleast 1pixel where other browsers do.