- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:01:40 +0100
- To: "David Woolley" <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>, www-style@w3.org
On Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:56:47 +0100, David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk> wrote: > Anne van Kesteren wrote: >>> Why do you want it to change with font size, when inherited? >> I don't understand. > > Either it is converted into a length, and inherited as the computed > value, in which case it is really a length, or it is a pure number of > some sort of character, in which case, when inherited, it will reflect > the size of that sort of character in the new font size. > > Normally, when people use tabs, they expect them to line up even when > the font size changes. It's just the number of space characters input to the algorithm of section 16.6.1 of CSS 2.1. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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