Re: [CSS21] response to issue 75

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 staffan.mahlen@comhem.se wrote:
>
> Interesting. The top of a box in the subtree in the last sentence of
> the paragraph would be the top content edge i assume?

No, it would be the top of the line-height, as for the other vertical
alignment values. The "top of the box" wording is used identically for
several of the vertical-align values.


> I have also been thinking about whether introducing a 'line-spacing'
> property might reduce the issues with 'line-height'.

I'm not really sure I understand which "issues" this (or your alternate
inline box model) would solve.


>     <a href="dummy" style="border: solid"><img src="dummy.png"/></a>
>
> where the a-box would in this model be high enough to potentially be
> the thing you click on when activating the link as you press the
> image. This seems like a good thing to me.

Why? The click already bubbles to the <a>.


> Another example that would seem to work better in a model like the
> above is of course
>     Text row one</br>
>     <span style="border-top: solid .5em">Text row two</span>
> but that is for obvious reasons never used.

I don't understand what this is trying to show.

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