- 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/ `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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