- From: L. David Baron <dbaron@fas.harvard.edu>
- Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 15:44:34 -0400 (EDT)
- To: leonardr@Adobe.COM, www-style@w3.org
>From: Leonard Rosenthol <leonardr@Adobe.COM>
>Given a style declaration of:
>
> <STYLE type="text/css">
> <!--
> .dynamic-style {text-indent : 24px}
> -->
> </STYLE>
>
>
>Why does this NOT work?
> <P class="dynamic-style"><SPAN>standard paragraph with a first line
>indent</SPAN></P>
>
>
>and this does?
> <P><SPAN class="dynamic-style">standard paragraph with a first line
>indent</SPAN></P>
I would think that the first example should work, but the second example
should not work. This is because text-indent should only apply to block-level
elements (such as P) but not to inline elements (such as SPAN). Could you
have gotten the examples mixed up?
David Baron
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