Re: box tree terminology

On 03/31/2011 12:23 PM, Alex Mogilevsky wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: fantasai [mailto:fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net]
>> Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 12:03 PM
>>
>> Explaining how line breaking works. How pagination works. How the borders
>> and backgrounds are applied to the broken boxes. Etc. I don't have any
>> specific instances off the top of my head, but I've run across the
>> terminology issue multiple times when working on CSS2.1 text.
>>
>> In many cases using the term 'element', e.g. "block container element"
>> doesn't work because we also have to consider anonymous boxes, which split
>> into multiple boxes, but are still all part of one box.
>
> Maybe it's OK for both kinds of boxes to just be boxes? They have the same
> nature. If "war and peace" is split into two volumes, each volume is a book
> and "war and peace" is a book, too, isn't it?

Yes, but when we need to, we can distinguish "book" and "volume".

So I guess the question is,

   book:volume
   box:?

~fantasai