- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 17:10:38 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
- To: fantasai <fantasai@escape.com>
- cc: <www-style@w3.org>
On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, fantasai wrote:
>>
>> In the context of the extended content property, if you have <div/>
>> in your document, then:
>>
>> div { display: block; content: none; }
>>
>> ...is the same as <div/>, whereas
>>
>> div { display: block; content: ''; }
>>
>> ...is the same as <div><span/></div>. The first has an intrinsic
>> height of 0, whereas the second has an intrinsic height equal to
>> the line height (typically 1.2em).
>
> Ah, then a string creates not only content, but an inline box around
> it as well.
Yes, see http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/visuren.html#anonymous
> So, what happens if the element in question is "display: inline"?
If the element in question is an inline box, then I believe the
proposed value none should be indistinguishable from the value ''.
>>> Then how come a url causes two different results based on whether
>>> it's in the url() notation or the replaced() notation?
>> "Then how come a counter identifier causes two different results
>> based on whether it's in the counter() notation or the counters()
>> notation?"
> counter() and counters() both return type string, do they not? And
> the content property treats that string value as it does any other
> string value, does it not?
>
> AFAICT, the url() notation takes a string and returns type URI,
> which is handled differently from type string.
In the context of the 'content' property I imagine it returning the
type 'mixed context replaced content' (i.e., it is replaced content
but in the context of mixed data: it can appear in the middle of text,
and doesn't directly replace the element itself).
> The replaced() notation also takes a string, but what does
> replaced() return?
'replaced content' (it's own context, i.e. it makes the element be a
replaced element, so the 'height' and 'width' properties affect it
even if it is inline).
Not that I'd ever thought of it this way before.
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