Re: "Replacedness" of form-type elements

On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Staffan Måhlén wrote:
> >
> > CSS2.1 does not define which properties apply to form controls and 
> > frames, or how CSS can be used to style them. User agents may apply 
> > CSS properties to these elements. Authors are recommended to treat 
> > such support as experimental. A future level of CSS may specify this 
> > further.
> 
> I would very much appreciate if you could elaborate a bit on the 
> intentions here?

It hasn't really been examined yet. Defining how form controls interact 
with the CSS model is a massive job.


> My orginal intentions with the question was otherwise more how this type 
> of element interacts with the inline model. Two UAs from three tested 
> seem to have a particular way of handling form-type elements baselines 
> and/or vertical-align, and their interpretation often makes sense but 
> their implementations seem to cause problems for the inline model. Are 
> there any UAs that implement 'inline-block' to this level of detail 
> (assuming that is a probable future solution)?

'inline-block' was poorly implemented by all UAs last time I tested it, 
but yes, one idea is to make some control (e.g. <input type="text">) into 
inline-blocks that are baseline-aligned.

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