Re: positioning the root element

Braden N. McDaniel
braden@endoframe.com
<URI:http://www.endoframe.com>
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Ian Hickson <py8ieh@bath.ac.uk>
To: www-style <www-style@w3.org>
Sent: Friday, March 19, 1999 3:45 PM
Subject: positioning the root element


> 
> According to CSS2, section 9.1.2,
> 
> # The initial containing block cannot be positioned or floated (i.e.,
> # user agents ignore the 'position' and 'float' properties for the
> # root element).
> 
> This is silly. 
> 
> Since the root element has a containing block of its own, chosen by
> the UA (probably the viewport or page), why can the root element not
> be positioned?

Why must the root element have a containing block of its own?

Braden