- From: Ian Hickson <py8ieh@bath.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 20:48:01 +0000 (GMT)
- To: Matthew Brealey <thelawnet@yahoo.com>
- cc: www-style <www-style@w3.org>
On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Matthew Brealey wrote:
> [text-decoration on blocks and inheritance]
> This property is not inherited, but inline descendants should be
> formatted with the same decoration (e.g., they should all be
> underlined). The color of decorations should remain the same even if
> descendant elements have different 'color' values.
This can be neatly explained by saying that the root inline box of
each line [1] has the same value of text-decoration as it's parent
block box, in the same was as it inherits the font properties and
line-height from the parent block box.
[1] http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~dbaron/css/2000/01/dibm#anonymous
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