Urgent: container form controls and display:block

Just trying to finish up the last few LC comments, and the one from Steven 
about default styling of form controls is posing a bit of a problem for 
me.

I am having a really hard time "living with" display:inline as the default 
for container form controls because it seems to mean that everyone *must* 
use styling to make a simple repeat behave as we all expect it to behave.

Granted that there are cases where it can be beneficial to have a group, 
switch or repeat styled as inline, but these controls, as containers are 
generally big box-like things that you tend to want to put things above 
and below far more often than next to.

In particular, consider the reasonable default behavior of a repeat.  Each 
repeat object is a group.  We tend to expect each repeat object to be a 
"row" of the table, which means we vertically stack the repeat object 
groups.  Hence, these groups need to be display:block.

It seems like the best default styling is display:inline for Core Form 
Controls, and display:block for Container Form Controls.

Is anyone not OK with that?
Steven, what do you think?

John M. Boyer, Ph.D.
STSM: Lotus Forms Architect and Researcher
Chair, W3C Forms Working Group
Workplace, Portal and Collaboration Software
IBM Victoria Software Lab
E-Mail: boyerj@ca.ibm.com 

Blog: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/JohnBoyer