Re: inline-block baseline when the baseline would be outside of the element

• From: Christian Biesinger <cbiesinger@google.com>
• Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 18:02:25 -0400
• To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
• Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <CAPTJ0XGZymf7Yp7mie8KW-7gechb6q0L0MhOqssw_U-sOJKf+g@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote:
> On 7/10/13 11:20 AM, Christian Biesinger wrote:
>>
>> PS: I just realized that in Firefox, if I add overflow: hidden;, then
>> the baseline changes! In other words: the overflow setting affects the
>> positioning of the box. That also seems weird?
>
>
> From http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visudet.html#line-height last paragraph:
>
>   The baseline of an 'inline-block' is the baseline of its last line
>   box in the normal flow, unless it has either no in-flow line boxes or
>   if its 'overflow' property has a computed value other than 'visible',
>   in which case the baseline is the bottom margin edge.
>
> The fact that WebKit does not do that is a longstanding issue in WebKit.

I guess I'm supposed to interpret that as "either overflow-x or
overflow-y is not visible"...?

-christian

Received on Wednesday, 10 July 2013 22:02:51 UTC