- From: L. David Baron <dbaron@fas.harvard.edu>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 19:56:09 -0500 (EST)
- To: www-style@w3.org
I have a question on rule #6 in http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/visuren.html#float-position The rule states: "6. The outer top of an element's floating box may not be higher than the top of any line-box containing a box generated by an element earlier in the source document." My original interpretation of this (and the way I think it should be interpreted, and the way I think the authors probably meant it, considering the earlier rules) is that the line-boxes to which this passage refers are only the line-boxes contained within the normal flow, not those within floating elements. Is this correct? Since I'm writing about this rule anyway, I think a more sensible rule would have been that it should not be higher than the bottom of a line box in the normal flow that cannot contain any more boxes (that is, one that has been ended either by carrying a line or by the end of the containing block-level element). David Baron -------------------------------------------------------------------- L. David Baron | Freshman, Harvard dbaron@fas.harvard.edu | < http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~dbaron/ > Webmaster, International Weather Satellite Imagery Center, etc. --------------------------------------------------------------------
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