Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-writing-modes] Question about implementability of the "different writing-mode value than its containing block" section of the spec

"Parent box" is the parent in the box tree, as usual. It's not necessarily the containing block. So for a float inside a SPAN, it's the SPAN, not the P that contains the SPAN. This is fine; this clause doesn't apply to out-of-flows, it only applies to in-flow `display: inline` boxes.

> Um... I don't follow. If I absolutely position a thing that's display:inline, its inner display had better change. That's how it's been specced forever, how it's implemented in all browsers, and websites depend on it. Am I just missing something about the change you just made to css-display and how it relates to this case?

There are a number of cases (e.g. `overflow`, `float`, `position`) where the inner display type behaves as `flow-root`, even when its `display` value is `flow`. This is called out in https://www.w3.org/TR/css-display-3/#valdef-display-flow There's no need for the `display` value to change here, hence I deleted the sentence that implied that.

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