- From: L. David Baron <dbaron@fas.harvard.edu>
- Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 12:57:46 -0400 (EDT)
- To: ament@xs4all.nl, kaj@raditex.se
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Mon, 09 Aug 1999 17:59:43 +0200, Rasmus Kaj (kaj@raditex.se) wrote:
> a> <HMTL><BODY> TEXT IS NI<EM>C</EM>E </BODY></HTML>
>
> a> where normal text has a margin-left: 2em
> a> and EM-text has a margin-left: 4em
>
> I assume:
> BODY { display: block; }
> EM { display: inline; }
>
> In this case, anonymous inline boxes should be created like this:
>
> <HTML><BODY><anon> TEXT IS NI</anon><EM>C</EM><anon>E
> </anon></BODY></HTML>
That is what the spec says [1], but I don't think it makes much sense,
since it doesn't explain why the anon and em inline boxes should have
the same baseline. As I've said before [2], I think the following:
<HTML><BODY><anon> TEXT IS NI<EM>C</EM>E</anon></BODY></HTML>
makes much more sense, since the vertial-align: baseline (the typical
value) on the EM has a parent inline box to which it can align.
Otherwise, if, for example, EM had a computed font-size of 300% and
vertical-align of baseline, there would be nothing wrong with
formatting it as:
TEXT IS NI|--E
|
|__
rather than
|--
|
TEXT IS NI|__E
It would also give a much nicer way to describe the action of
line-height on a block-level element.
David
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/visuren.html#anonymous
[2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/1999Jan/0027.html
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/1999Mar/0121.html
L. David Baron Rising Sophomore, Harvard dbaron@fas.harvard.edu
Links, SatPix, CSS, etc. < http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~dbaron/ >
Summer Intern, Netscape - however, opinions are entirely my own, etc.
Received on Monday, 9 August 1999 12:57:48 UTC