- From: Ian Hickson <py8ieh@bath.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 21:40:45 +0000 (GMT)
- To: Matthew Brealey <thelawnet@yahoo.com>
- cc: www-style <www-style@w3.org>
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Matthew Brealey wrote:
>> I know that neither Opera not Mozilla currently underline images as
>> they should.
> No no no.
Yes yes yes. ;-)
If 'text-decoration' is applied to a SPAN element which contains,
amongst other things, some text, then all the contents of the SPAN
should be underlined, since the underlining spans all descendants.
Thus:
<span style="text-decoration: underline">
<em>some text</em>
<img src="..." alt="an image">
<em>some text</em>
</span>
...would result in:
some text [X] some text
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...and not:
some text [X] some text
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Note that the EM and IMG elements do not have 'text-decoration' set.
The underlining does not apply to the IMG element at all, since it is
not _set_ on the IMG element. According to CSS2:
# If the property is specified for a block-level element, it affects
# all inline-level descendants of the element. If it is specified for
# (or affects) an inline-level element, it affects all boxes generated
# by the element.
Thus every box inside an element which has 'text-decoration' set to
'underline', regardless of whether it is an inline level or a block
level element, will be affected. Including IMG elements, which
generate boxes just like any other element.
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