Re: box-sizing: border-box; from Tantek Çelik on 2003-10-29 (www-style@w3.org from October 2003)

From: Tantek Çelik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 23:42:08 -0800
To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
Cc: Scott Romack <sromack@ptsteams.com>, <www-style@w3.org>
Message-ID: <BBC4AF4A.2F36E%tantek@cs.stanford.edu>

On 10/28/03 9:47 PM, "Boris Zbarsky" <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU> wrote:

> Much more interesting, what should width:inherit inherit?

In CSS2.1, the computed value of formatting dependent properties (like
'width') is "computed" before figuring out the actual value (by resolving
percentages etc.) so that inheritance can be computed without having to do
formatting.

Tantek

Received on Wednesday, 29 October 2003 02:38:15 UTC