Re: [CSS21] Computing widths of block reflow context roots in the presence of floats

Boris, I suspect that you are using not up to date document.
The one which is published currently stays:

 "(although a box's *line boxes* may shrink due to the floats),"

See: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#q15

Or someone just have updated the document.

Andrew Fedoniouk.
http://terrainformatica.com



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Boris Zbarsky" <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
To: "www-style Mailing List" <www-style@w3.org>
Sent: Friday, November 03, 2006 7:31 AM
Subject: [CSS21] Computing widths of block reflow context roots in the 
presence of floats


>
> Consider the following testcase:
>
>   <body style="width: 300px">
>     <div style="float: left; height: 100px; width: 100px"/>
>     <div style="overflow: hidden" id="test">
>       Text
>     </div>
>   </body>
>
> And assume all three elements generate block boxes and no other styles are 
> applied.  What is the correct layout?  Per section 10.3.3, the computed 
> width of the id="test" block is 300px, and since its margin box may not 
> overlap the float I'd expect it to be cleared below the float.  But 
> there's some sort of confusing wording in section 9.4.1 about "the box 
> itself may become narrower due to the floats", and all current UAs make 
> the id="test" block 200px wide and place it next to the float...
>
> Is the idea that both layouts are "correct" per the spec or something?
>
> -Boris
>
> Reference: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=359135
>

Received on Saturday, 4 November 2006 04:21:00 UTC