- From: Daniel W. Connolly <connolly@beach.w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 00:18:18 -0400
- To: Charles Peyton Taylor <CTaylor@wposmtp.nps.navy.mil>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
In message <s1775ed0.064@wposmtp.nps.navy.mil>, Charles Peyton Taylor writes: > >The cascading style sheet draft at: >http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/TR/WD-css1 >defines a block-level element as "an element which >has a line break before and after (e.g. 'H1' in HTML)" >which makes sense in that context because style sheets >are all about presentation. Other definitions also >concern what is allowed inside then, or what they >are allowed inside. Should I use that definition, >or is there any consensus as to what a block-level >element *is* as opposed to what it does (or does it >matter?) The distinction between block-level and inline is only relevant when discussing rendering to traditional 2-dimentional text displays, I'd say. Hmmm... I suppose a speech synthesizer would pause before and after a paragraph, and not likely before and after an <em>phasized phrase. But I'm not sure if the distinction can be consistently carried over. Dan
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