Re: [css21] Collapsing margins

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The spec is referring to situations where the bottom margin of one block
is right up against the top margin of the next block.  Collapsing can
also occur if a parent element has no padding or borders and the
first/last child has margins of its own (then the child's margins would
collapse with the parents).

And yes, what you describe is also a collapsing condition (if a block
element has no height, then it's top and bottom margins will collapse
together, and possibly with the margins of the blocks above/below it).

Andrew Fedoniouk wrote:
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| Can anybody comment following [1]:
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| <quote>
| If the top and bottom margins of a box are adjoining, then it is
| possible for margins to collapse through it. In this case, the position
| of the element depends on its relationship with the other elements whose
| margins are being collapsed. </quote>
|
| What exactly means: "top and bottom margins of a box are adjoining"? Top
| and bottom margins of a box are adjacent to each other?
|
| If yes then there is only one case when it is possible - when block has
| computed value of height equals to zero.
|
| And also "then it is possible" implies some indetermination.
| Is this the intention?
|
| OT: Is it possible in principle to define margin collapsing in terms of
| :first-child or something like this?
|
| Andrew Fedoniouk.
| http://terrainformatica.com
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|
| [1]  http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/box.html#collapsing-margins
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Received on Sunday, 19 February 2006 04:41:19 UTC