Question on step 1 in section 10.3.8

• From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
• Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 00:36:30 -0600
• To: www-style@w3.org
• Message-ID: <439925EE.4030306@mit.edu>

I'm trying to understand the rationale behind the first step in section 10.3.8. 
  As far as I can see, this step has the following effects:

1)  Makes layout of replaced and non-replaced absolutely positioned elements 
different.
2)  Makes it impossible to get the layout you get with "left:0; right:0" in the 
non-replaced case when working with a replaced element.

I suppose that this algorithm makes abs pos replaced elements behave closer to 
block-level replaced elements in terms of sizing... but it seems to me that an 
author who _wanted_ this behavior would simply set left or right to auto and 
that step 1 significantly limits author flexibility when using abs pos replaced 
elements...

-Boris

Received on Friday, 9 December 2005 06:38:05 UTC