- From: L. David Baron <dbaron@fas.harvard.edu>
- Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:35:17 -0500 (EST)
- To: www-style@w3.org
In the definition of line-height [1], the spec defines <number> values to depend on the "element's font size" and <percentage> values to depend on the "element's computed font size". This difference was recently pointed out to me, and I'm wondering why it exists. Furthermore, I also wonder if, instead of computed font size, actual font size was meant. These terms are explained in the definition of font-size [2]: The actual value of [font-size] may differ from the computed value due a numerical value on 'font-size-adjust' and the unavailability of certain font sizes. It doesn't make sense to me that if a font was specified as 10px but only available as 16px, then a line-height of 1.2 (or 120%) should result in a line-height of 12px. I think both these statements should be changed so that line-height depends on the actual font-size, not the computed font-size. (Even if it should be computed, I definitely think they should be the same, unless there was some reason I don't see.) David Baron [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/visudet.html#propdef-line-height [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/fonts.html#propdef-font-size
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