- From: Arron Eicholz <Arron.Eicholz@microsoft.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 22:45:17 +0000
- To: Anton Prowse <prowse@moonhenge.net>
- CC: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Friday, January 07, 2011 12:53 PM Anton Prowse wrote: > > Issue 2: 9.5 goes on to say: > > # The border box of a table, a block-level replaced element, or an > # element in the normal flow that establishes a new block formatting > # context (such as an element with 'overflow' other than 'visible') > # must not overlap any floats in the same block formatting context as > # the element itself. > > But is it talking about the border of the table box or the table wrapper > box? I think it's talking about the table wrapper box, even though > 'border' isn't one of the properties whose computed value is used on the > table wrapper box when specified on the table element. > > This means that the spec needs changing, along the lines of the following: > > s/The border box of a table,/The border area of the table wrapper box of > a table element, or of/ > > Note that Issue 212[2] concerns whether the table wrapper box > establishes a block formatting context. If it does then it ought to be > trivial to simplify this sentence further, yet doing so is made > difficult by the spec's recurrent element vs box sloppiness. > > > [1] http://wiki.csswg.org/spec/css2.1#issue-185 > [2] http://wiki.csswg.org/spec/css2.1/last-call-2010#issue-212 Thank you for your feedback. The CSSWG resolved not to make these changes to the CSS 2.1 specification[1]. We will be reevaluating this issue for errata and future versions of CSS. Please respond before 18 March, 2011 if you do not accept the current resolution. [1] http://w3.org/TR/CSS
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