- From: Ian Hickson <py8ieh@bath.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 02:43:04 +0000 (GMT)
- To: "L. David Baron" <dbaron@fas.harvard.edu>
- cc: www-style <www-style@w3.org>
On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, L. David Baron wrote:
> In [1], Tantek Celik wrote that he could not come up with a use for
> a 'margin-box' value of the 'box-sizing' property. I think there is
> an real use: to make a table with margin 100% of the width of its
> parent element, but not overflow the parent.
>
> However, the concerns he raises about margin-box and collapsing
> margins are serious. Perhaps 'margin-box' could mean margin-box
> horizontally and padding-box vertically?
Actually, I'm not sure that the problems with margin-box and
vertically collapsing margins _are_ serious, since the collapsing is
done _after_ the 'height' calculations.
The height for 'margin-box' would simply be:
computed value for height = specified value for height -
(margin-top + border-width-top + padding-top +
border-width-bottom + padding-bottom + margin-bottom)
What is the problem?
As David says, this is rather important with tables which specify
margins and want to be 100% the width of the parent (since
'width:auto' on tables triggers the automatic layout algorithm and not
the normal horizontal box model calculations).
> [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/1999Oct/0036.html
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Ian Hickson
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