RE: block level formatting

I assume you're talking about this example:

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/visuren.html#display-prop


The CSS2 examples you've mentioned are distilled from the W3C's sample HTML4/CSS2 stylesheet:

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/sample.html


This is roughly the default stylesheet applied by most browsers. It is vaguely mentioned that browsers use a default stylesheet (and the above CSS is linked with the example), but a user would have to click the link to realize the CSS examples given aren't useful for defining a page in HTML or XHTML.

To further confuse the issue the final example, IMG { display: none; } is not redundant. The first 3 examples should probably be swapped for effectual examples, or the IMG example removed and an explicit statement added that all of the examples come from the default stylesheet.

-Chris "SoopahMan" Moschini


-----Original Message-----
From: Brian V Bonini [mailto:b-bonini@cox.net]
Subject: RE: block level formatting

That being the case why does the CSS 2 recommendation cite examples of
the display property such as p {display: block}, is this not as
redundant as div {display: block} and at the very least confusing?

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