- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 12:43:02 +0100
- To: fantasai <fantasai@escape.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
fantasai wrote:
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-css3-box-20010726/#the-margin :
> |
> | 'Margin-inside' and 'margin-outside' are aliases for 'margin-left' or
> | 'margin-right', depending on the current medium:
> |
> | * in paged media [link], 'margin-inside' sets 'margin-left' for those
> | parts of an element that fall on a right-hand page and 'margin-right'
> | for the parts on a left-hand page. 'Margin-outside' is the reverse
>
> margin-left: 1em;
> margin-inside: 0;
> margin-outside: 2em;
> margin-right: .5em;
>
> 1. How wide are the margins?
>
> 1.a. How do you know?
This is a known error in the spec. Assume the margin-outside and -inside
properties have a new value like "defer" (which is their initial value). The
margin is then established by looking first at the appropriate margin-outside/
-inside, and if that is "defer" then the appropriate -before/-after/-start/-end,
and if that is "defer" then the appropriate -top/-right/-bottom/-left.
I don't recall what we decided to call this value. Any suggestions? ("auto" is
taken, "unspecified" is a lie, "defer" sounds silly...)
--
Ian Hickson )\._.,--....,'``. fL
"meow" /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,.
http://index.hixie.ch/ `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
Received on Wednesday, 17 July 2002 07:43:09 UTC