On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Lars Nyström wrote: > When inline text wrap around a floating block, is the margin moved or > are extra blocks generated to contain contain the shorter lines? According to CSS1/CSS2, neither, which is a problem for list bullets. It does make sense for small floats that *can* fit in the margin. This has been discussed before [1], and hopefully CSS3 will have a solution for this problem, probably similar to the one in the current CSS3 box model draft [2]. Does that solution seem sufficient? -David [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/1998Dec/0029.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/1998Dec/0066.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/1998Dec/0082.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/1998Dec/0083.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/1999Jan/0056.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/1999Jan/0060.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/1999Jan/0061.html and probably many other messages that I can't find right now... [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-box/#the-float-displace -- L. David Baron <URL: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~dbaron/ > Mozilla Contributor <URL: http://www.mozilla.org/ > Invited Expert, W3C CSS WG <URL: http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/ >Received on Friday, 17 August 2001 17:14:22 GMT
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