- From: Robert Hogan <robhogan@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 19:07:11 +0000
- To: Øyvind Stenhaug <oyvinds@opera.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Robert Hogan <robhogan@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Øyvind Stenhaug <oyvinds@opera.com> wrote: >> On Mon, 26 Nov 2012 20:12:46 +0100, Robert Hogan <robhogan@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> So with this in mind, it's not clear to me what, in the spec, forces >>> the black float to only go as far as the top border edge of its parent >>> (so that it clears the blue float completely) rather than the outer >>> top of its parent as it would normally do (where it will avoid the >>> blue float rather than clear it). >> >> >> I'm not sure why you say that's what it would normally do. The top of the >> black float may not go higher up than the content edge of its parent, per >> <http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#float-rules> and >> <http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visudet.html#containing-block-details>. >> > > Can you be more specific where it says it can't go higher than the > content edge of the parent? > > At http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#float-rules I can only see > it state that the outer top (i.e. the margin edge) is the limit and > that the float must be placed as high as possible. I've stopped misreading it now and see what you mean! Thanks! Robert
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