Re: border on broken line boxes (was Re: 14.2.1 'background-position' - block level only?)

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Tantek wrote:
> Speaking of broken line boxes, it does not seem clear from the
> CSS2 spec how a conforming user agent is supposed to render
> borders on broken line boxes (maybe I just missed that page
> out of the 300+ pp. :-).  
I know how you feel, because I just spent at lest 45 minutes trying to
answer that very question for my last message (same thread) to www-style.
The answer would seem to be in the diagram at the end of section 9.4.2
(there is an ASCII version at the end of my last post):

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/visuren.html#inline-formatting

I think that this clears it up, although it is only a brief explanation.

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