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Re: [CSS21] figure caption should not mention caption margin collapsing

From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:30:55 -0700
Message-ID: <4A5BA78F.1080808@inkedblade.net>
To: "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>
CC: www-style@w3.org 
L. David Baron wrote:
> Sometime since CSS2.0, we removed the sentence from 17.4 that said:
>   # Vertical margins collapse where the table box and caption box
>   # touch.
>   --http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-CSS2-19980512/tables.html#q5
> 
> Between
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/CR-CSS21-20070719/tables.html#model and
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/CR-CSS2-20090423/tables.html#model we also
> fixed the figure in that section so that the margins don't collapse.
> 
> But the *caption* of the figure still says the margins collapse:
>   # Diagram of a table with a caption above it; the top margin of
>   # the caption is collapsed with the top margin of the table. 
> 
> This caption should be fixed so that it doesn't say the margins
> collapse.

Filed as CSS2.1 Issue 127:
   http://wiki.csswg.org/spec/css2.1#issue-127

~fantasai
Received on Monday, 13 July 2009 22:31:31 GMT

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