- From: Oriol Brufau via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2020 14:45:33 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
> In summary, the rlh unit, when used for the line-height property of a non-root element, uses the computed value of the line-height property of the parent element
No, the spec says "when [...] used [...] on the element they refer to". The `rlh` unit refers to the root element. So if you use it in a non-root element, the condition won't apply, and it will still be relative to the line-height of the root element.
> Firstly, this includes the `rem` unit, leading to the same bug for `rem` as described above for `rlh`.
No, for the same reason.
> Secondly, this mixes font-relative units and line-relative units. For `lh` and `rlh` the `font-size` property should be irrelevant.
It's relevant, because we don't want cycles like
```css
#element {
font-size: 1lh;
line-height: 1em;
}
```
In #2115 I initially proposed detecting cycles with a directed dependency graph, and treat things like `font-size: 1lh` normally if there was no cycle. But from the minutes:
> florian: We could have a less blunt approach, but I don't think there's use cases for the more subtile variants.
> myles: I agree we shouldn't be in the business of trying to do a complex dependency analysis.
> RES0LVED: define lh unit resolution to be that of the parent when the lh unit is spec on line-height or font-size
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