- From: L. David Baron <dbaron@fas.harvard.edu>
- Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 13:20:05 -0500 (EST)
- To: www-style@w3.org
Section 14.2 of CSS2 says both of the following [1]: # Margins are always transparent so the background of the parent box # always shines through. # The background of the box generated by the root element covers the # entire canvas. Therefore, one of the following must be true: * The margins of the root element are colored by the background of the root element * The root element cannot have margins. * The background of the box generated by the root element covers the entire canvas minus the margins of the root element. (This doesn't make much sense to me since the canvas can be much bigger than the root element if the children of the root element overflow - for example, wide tables or preformatted text.) * Something else?? I suspect it's the first of these possibilities, but I'm not sure. Which one is correct? David [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/colors.html#q2 L. David Baron Sophomore, Harvard (Physics) dbaron@fas.harvard.edu Links, SatPix, CSS, etc. <URL: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~dbaron/ > WSP CSS AC <URL: http://www.webstandards.org/css/ >
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