Containing blocks of descendants of relatively positioned inline elements

There is a contradiction in the spec:
<q cite="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/visuren.html#relative-positioning">
A relatively positioned box establishes a new a new [sic] containing block
for normal flow children and positioned descendants.
</q>
cf.
<q
cite="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/visudet.html#containing-block-details">
The containing block (called the initial containing block) in which the
root element lives is chosen by the user agent.
For other elements, unless the element is absolutely positioned, the
containing block is formed by the content edge of the nearest block-level
ancestor box.
</q>

Since, unlike absolutely positioned elements, relatively positioned boxes
may be inline-level, the statements cannot stand together.



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Received on Monday, 17 January 2000 07:37:12 UTC