Re: [css-page-floats] The 'clear' values are backwards

On 01/23/2016 11:15 AM, Johannes Wilm wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 10:36 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com <mailto:jackalmage@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> The page-float 'clear' values (block-start/end, and ones that act like
>> that) are defined backwards - as written, they prevent *further*
>> page-floats in the same position. That's not how clear works in other
>> contexts - 'clear' indicates that the element wants to move if *it*
>> isn't the first in that direction.
>>
>> So "clear: block-start;" should be defined as making the page float in
>> question move to the next appropriate fragment if it's not the first
>> float in that position.
>
> Yes,s o it should lock the current fragment from any further floats in
> that same direction AND defer itself at least one fragment, right?
> Else we could end up with subsequent floats being placed in that same
> fragment.

Well, but that's how clear generally works. So, yes, subsequent content
would be allowed (unless said content also clears).

~fantasai

Received on Monday, 25 January 2016 18:36:46 UTC