- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 14:20:18 +0100
- To: Etan Wexler <ewexler@stickdog.com>
- CC: www-style@w3.org
Etan Wexler wrote: > Ian Hickson wrote: >> Why can an inline element not be a containing block? >> >> That happens all the time, e.g. every inline element that has >> 'position:relative' becomes a containing block for absolutely positioned >> descendants. > > You make a good point but, at least in CSS2, the root element cannot > have a calculated 'position' value of 'relative'. But the root element establishes a containing block simply by virtue of being the root element. Section 10.1 is quit clear on this. I propose we strike the conflicting section in chapter 9. -- 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
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