- From: Paul Duncan <paul.duncan@marketpipe.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 11:45:31 +0100
- To: "'Ian Hickson'" <ian@hixie.ch>, "'ray whitfield'" <raylwhitfield@gmail.com>
- Cc: <www-style@w3.org>
-----Original Message----- From: Ian Hickson [mailto:ian@hixie.ch] >The problem is that 'color' is an inherited property. >Inheritance is done before layout >it has to be, since the layout depends on inheritance). I cannot see how the 'color' of an element can in anyway affect the layout. >You don't know what is a column until you've done the layout. To make >'color''s inheritance depend on the layout thus doesn't fit CSS's model. > But nobody has yet given a solution that is easily implementable in the > CSS model. Here's a simple solution?!? First pass all CSS aspects relating to layout are applied. Then the layout is rendered Then a second pass renders aspects relating to color and other non-layout styles. Do I get a prize?
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