- From: tomasts248 via GitHub <noreply@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:21:12 +0000
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Thank you. > Hard to tell what the arrows represent It means the logical sequence, so it goes from the first step into to the next one below like a mental map > See https://drafts.csswg.org/css-display-3/#block Thank you, reading: > a [block box](https://drafts.csswg.org/css-display-3/#block-box) (i.e. a [block-level](https://drafts.csswg.org/css-display-3/#block-level) block container) that establishes a [block formatting context](https://drafts.csswg.org/css-display-3/#block-formatting-context) for its contents (as distinguished from a block box which does not) If I understood correctly: a "block level" is a block that is children of a block container (that sets the inner and outer values I guess thats the principal box?) and inside a "block formatting context" like: Block Formatting Context │ ├── block-level box (div) ├── block-level box (p) └── block-level box (section) > inline-level: Content that participates in inline layout. Specifically, inline-level boxes and text sequences. > block-level: Content that participates in block layout. Specifically, block-level boxes. I'm trying to grasp what exactly means to participate... I guess participate means that the formatting context is responsible for positioning that box? > See https://drafts.csswg.org/css-display-3/#block-container > If the inner display type is flow, the element uses flow layout internally. > Flow layout contains two possible formatting contexts: > Block Formatting Context (BFC) > Inline Formatting Context (IFC) In order words whether is BFC or IFC depends on the contents of the children. -- GitHub Notification of comment by tomasts248 Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/13634#issuecomment-4048095080 using your GitHub account -- Sent via github-notify-ml as configured in https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config
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