Re: W3C Core Styles

Todd Fahrner writes:

 > " FWIW, ADDRESS is a block element in the HTML 4.0 DTD.  In HTML 3.2, it is
 > " "body.content" along with %heading, %text, and %block.  Since HTML 3.2
 > " allows P elements within ADDRESS, I think we could call it a block element.
 > 
 > Yikes! I made this "discovery" when HTML 4.0 was in draft. Possibly an
 > earlier draft had ADDRESS as inline? Thanks for setting it straight. I
 > think the point I was making stands even without this bit of
 > misinformation, though - or do you think otherwise? 

No, your point still stands. An element which is %block in HTML4 can
perfectly well have 'display: inline' in CSS. HTML defines what
elements can be inside each other, CSS determines how they are
presented.

Regards,

-h&kon

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Received on Tuesday, 17 February 1998 07:01:11 UTC