- From: Bert Bos <bbos@mygale.inria.fr>
- Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 20:58:29 +0200 (MET DST)
- To: "Galarneau, Neil" <ngalarneau@concord6.powersoft.com>
- Cc: "'www-style'" <www-style@w3.org>
Neil Galarneau writes:
> The latest CSS1 doc says that box properties such as margin and border
> apply to "all elements", but the description of the formatting model in
> Chapter 4
> says that "each block-level element ... is surrounded by a box" and only
> explains the box properties in those terms.
>
> Why, therefore, does the doc state that box properties apply to all
> elements
> and what does that mean?
Yes, margin, padding and border do apply to all elements.
- For block-like elements, they work as described by the model of nested
boxes;
- for `replaced elements' such as images, they put a border around
the image (see last par. of 5.5.1);
- for in-line elements, they put a box around the element, but there
may be several boxes if the element is broken across lines (see last
par. of 5.5.3)
Bert
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Received on Monday, 19 August 1996 14:59:11 UTC