Re: baseline of inline element from Ian Hickson on 2002-02-15 (www-style@w3.org from February 2002)

From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 15:28:07 +0000
To: Srinivasan Raman <Srinivasan.Raman@oracle.com>
CC: www-style@w3.org
Message-ID: <3C6D2907.5000805@hixie.ch>

Srinivasan Raman wrote:
> 
> In order vertically align the marker and principal box along
> its baseline, I am trying to find the distance from the top of
> the box to its baseline.

A marker box is just like an inline box. The height of an inline box is 
described in http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~dbaron/css/2000/01/dibm

HTH,
-- 
Ian Hickson
``The inability of a user agent to implement part of this specification due to
the limitations of a particular device (e.g., non interactive user agents will
probably not implement dynamic pseudo-classes because they make no sense
without interactivity) does not imply non-conformance.'' -- Selectors, Sec13

Received on Friday, 15 February 2002 10:40:14 UTC