Re: inline vs inline-block

> I don't know if the default should be inline-block though. In fact,
> I don't know if any default is useful in practice, as you usually
> want to layout a form in a very specific way and no default is likely
> to be acceptable.

+1

From: <ebruchez@gmail.com> on behalf of Erik Bruchez <ebruchez@orbeon.com>
Date: Thursday, 8 February 2018 at 19:13
To: Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>
Cc: XForms <public-xformsusers@w3.org>
Subject: Re: inline vs inline-block
Resent-From: <public-xformsusers@w3.org>
Resent-Date: Thursday, 8 February 2018 at 19:13

I suspect that when XForms 1.0 came out, inline-block was not quite a thing yet. For example [1] Firefox 2 from late 2006 had this behind a flag.

I don't know if the default should be inline-block though. In fact, I don't know if any default is useful in practice, as you usually want to layout a form in a very specific way and no default is likely to be acceptable.

-Erik

[1] https://caniuse.com/#feat=inline-block


On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 2:50 AM, Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl<mailto:steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>> wrote:
Throughout the spec we distinguish between block and inline display.

For instance: "Unless otherwise specified, controls have an inline layout by default (e.g. for a host language that supports CSS, the default styling should be display:inline)."

However, if I ever explicitly set a display property in the CSS to inline, it almost always to display: inline-block, principally because you can set height and width.

Should be specify this?

Steven