Re: Transforms and z-index (Was: [CSSWG] Minutes and Resolutions 2011-04-20)

On Apr 22, 2011, at 3:01 am, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote:

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> On Apr 22, 2011, at 2:16 PM, Simon Fraser wrote:
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>> I think you misunderstand. Those still work. I'm saying that 'left' and 'top'
>> don't apply to a statically positioned, transformed element.
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> er.. yeah, reading failure on my part. Sorry about that.
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> But it still feels weird that an AP child/descendant of a statically positioned transformed  element uses the transformed element as its containing block.

But think about the alternative; the left/top offset for the positioned descendent would cross a transform boundary (which might be a rotation), which becomes nonsensical.

Simon

Received on Friday, 22 April 2011 14:52:16 UTC