Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-page] Should named pages be ignored when inside out-of-flow elements? (#9513)

> I cannot find anything in the spec suggesting that named pages are to be ignored inside floats or absolutely positioned elements.

It's a bit ambiguous.  As noted in my previous comment, we were looking at https://www.w3.org/TR/css-break-3/#btw-blocks as the main definition for class A break points (where `page` values get compared), and that mentions these two cases, relating to in-flow boxes and floats:
```
Between sibling boxes of the following types:  [...]
* in-flow block-level boxes
* a float and an immediately-adjacent in-flow or floated box
```
We took that as excluding out-of-flow stuff (and allowing breaks before/after floats but not within them).

However, I suppose there's a case to be made that e.g. **block-level siblings inside of an OOF** are technically "in-flow" within their local formatting context.  *shrug*

Its not clear to me whether the spec meant to include or exclude those.

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