- From: Hakon Lie <howcome@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 23:53:54 +0200 (Europe de l'Ouest (Heure d'été))
- To: Tantek Celik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu>
- Cc: Ian Hickson <exxieh@bath.ac.uk>, Style Sheet mailing list <www-style@w3.org>
Tantek Celik wrote: > >http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/visuren.html#inline-formatting > > > >I think that this clears it up, although it is only a brief explanation. > > It certainly clears up some questions. However, in that same section > there is this piece of text: > > "When an inline box is split, margins, borders, and padding have no visual > effect where the split occurs." > > Is it too much to presume that that last "split occurs" was intended to be > "split(s) occur(s)"? You're right, there can be more than one split and this should be reflected in the specification. > e.g. This is one way of interpreting section 9.4.2 for an inline box that > splits across more than two lines (paraphrasing the examples used for the > abovementioned diagram): > > +------------------- > Several |emphasized words, > +------------------- > ----------------------------- > enough to break across more > ----------------------------- > ---------------+ > than two lines,| appear here. > ---------------+ > > fig. 1 > > Is this what was intended? Yes, if the dashes represent the combination of padding/border/margins. As Roland noted in another answer, to actually get this visual effect you need to set 'line-height' as well. In the CSS2 example [1], the line height is set to '2.4em'. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/visuren.html#inline-formatting -h&kon H ĺ k o n W i u m L i e howcome@w3.org http://www.w3.org/people/howcome World W i d e Web Consortium
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