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https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=18476 Summary: Failure to define that a table-caption element is block-level Product: CSS Version: unspecified Platform: All OS/Version: All Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: CSS Level 2 AssignedTo: bert@w3.org ReportedBy: antonsforums@yahoo.co.uk QAContact: public-css-bugzilla@w3.org Reported by Peter Moulder 9.2.1 (Block-level elements and block boxes) says: # [...] The following values of the 'display' property make an # element block-level: 'block', 'list-item', and 'table'. In CSS21, an element with display:table-caption is also a block-level element, but this is intentionally not mentioned in 9.2.1 because future levels of CSS are likely to introduce new 'left' and 'right' values of the 'caption-side' property, which will cause the caption box to not be block-level.[1] Rather, the belief expressed in [1] is that 17.4 defines that table captions are block-level in CSS21, so that this forwards-incompatible information is restricted to the very chapter ("module") that will introduce the breaking change (and simultaneously remove the statement that table captions are block-level) at some future level. However, 17.4 in fact fails to define table captions to be block-level elements. Rather, it says: # [...] The caption boxes are block-level boxes [...]. It is not enough to put this down to the familiar box vs element informality in the spec, since both the quoted statement for boxes and the analogous statement for elements are simultaneously true. 17.4 needs to define table captions as block-level elements, since the spec is written under the assumption that the "level" of each element type is known. [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2010Aug/0026.html Conversation begins: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2010Jul/0519.html (middle part) Bug description: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2010Aug/0029.html -- Configure bugmail: https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug.
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