- From: Martin J. Dürst <mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch>
- Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 12:02:25 +0200 (MET DST)
- To: Peter Flynn <pflynn@imbolc.ucc.ie>
- cc: ivan@mad.scientist.com, www-html@w3.org
On 15 Aug 1997, Peter Flynn wrote: > Ivan writes: > Sorry for the plain question, but from the HTML author point of view, what > does it mean a block element? > > One that (usually) causes a browser to start a new line before > and after (and maybe add a blank line as well). Being a block element has other, very specific, consequences in the case of Bidirectional (Bidi) text (e.g. Hebrew/Arabic mixed with English). CSS allows any block element to be changed to inline rendering, and vice versa. The consequences on Bidi text are described in HTML 4.0. Without having a clear definition of whether something is (by default) a block element or an inline element, things won't work well for Bidi. Regards, Martin.
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