Re: Rendering section feedback

On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 04:07:19 +0100, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:

>>   When a Document is in quirks mode, margins on HTML elements that
>>   collapse with the top or bottom of the initial containing block are
>>   expected to be collapsed to zero.
>>
>> I think this should be more general, sort of like:
>>
>>   :first-child { margin-top:0 }
>>   :last-child { margin-bottom:0 }
>>
>> ...but I haven't looked into whether that matches reality or not.
>
> That CSS definitely doesn't match reality. I'm not sure if my english
> prose does either, though. Are there cases that I missed that aren't
> covered by existing CSS spec text?

I was thinking of e.g. this case:

http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/?%3Cstyle%3E%20td%20%7B%20border%3Asolid%20%7D%20%3C%2Fstyle%3E%0A%3Ctable%3E%3Ctd%3E%3Cp%3Ex%3Cdiv%3Ex%3C%2Fdiv%3E%3Cp%3Ex


> On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>>
>> Only Firefox (maybe WebKit?) seems to have display:block for multicol. I
>> could not find a browser that has it for spacer. So these two elements
>> should be removed from that list I think. (Thanks to Simon.)
>
> Dropped multicol. Couldn't find mention of spacer in the rendering
> section.

I think Anne meant 'layer'. :-)


> On Fri, 6 Feb 2009, Simon Pieters wrote:
>>
>> The spec contains the following defaults for <figure>:
>>
>>   div, dl, dt, figure, footer, form, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, header, hr,
>>   html, layer, legend, listing, menu, multicol, nav, ol, p, plaintext,
>>   pre, rp, section, ul, xmp { display: block; }
>>
>>   blockquote, figure { margin-left: 40px; margin-right: 40px; }
>>
>>   th, figure > legend { text-align: center; }
>>
>> Let's it...
>>
>>    http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/saved/3
>>
>> Hmm, not really satisfying for me. The captions are off. If you try
>> figure { float:right } the first one looks ok but the second looks
>> weird.
>
> Removed centering of <legend>.

AFAICT it's still there:

   th, figure > legend { text-align: center; }

-- 
Simon Pieters
Opera Software

Received on Wednesday, 11 February 2009 06:33:04 UTC