- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:24:40 -0400
- To: Andrew Fedoniouk <news@terrainformatica.com>
- CC: www-style@w3.org
Andrew Fedoniouk wrote: > > Reading[1]... > > First question about vertical-align: baseline and elements that are > display:inline-block. > > Does for example <span style="display:inline-block">Text1<br/>Text2</span> > have a baseline? If it does I would like to know what is an exact value of > baseline shift for such an inline block. See the last sentence in http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visudet.html > "Note. Values of this property have slightly different meanings > in the context of tables. Please consult the > section on table height algorithms for details." > > I believe that "slightly different" is, well, slightly not the case. > > There are two distinct meaning of vertical-alignment here. > First: vertical-alignment is an alignment of block itself in its parent > context and second (table cells) is an instruction for a *container* > of how to position its children. These two are conceptually different > cases so I propose to remove that "slightly" from the note. Recorded as issue 9: http://csswg.inkedblade.net/spec/css2.1#issue-9 ~fantasai
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