Re: Containing block for absolutely positioned elements

On Tuesday 30 August 2005 22:17, Stanimir Stamenkov wrote:
> /Stanimir Stamenkov/:
> > Amaya 9.2.1 doesn't determine the containing block for absolutely
> > positioned elements correctly. Seems a containing block is established
> > only if its 'position' property is 'absolute' or 'fixed'.
>
> Here's an online test case:
>
> http://stanio.info/containing_block.html
>
> and the reference rendering:
>
> http://stanio.info/containing_block.png
>
>
> Absolute positioning is not much useful for "laying out" the main
> content but does pretty good job for adding ornaments where they are
> positioned relatively to elements in the normal flow and the only
> way for those to become containing blocks is to have 'position:
> relative'.

I'll have a look at this bug asap
-- 
     Irène.
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