RE: [CSS2.1 position:relative] Blocks Contained in Inline Relative.

Thanks, that makes it perfectly clear.

Perhaps this special text should be referenced from 'position' property?

--Alex

-----Original Message-----
From: L. David Baron [mailto:dbaron@dbaron.org]
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 12:35 PM
To: www-style@w3.org
Cc: Alex Mogilevsky
Subject: Re: [CSS2.1 position:relative] Blocks Contained in Inline Relative.

On Thursday 2008-02-07 11:59 -0800, Alex Mogilevsky wrote:
> When a block with a static position is contained in an inline block with "position:relative", should the relative offset apply to it?
>
> 9.3.1 http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#choose-position
> Doesn't have any special cases for blocks within relative inlines. And position doesn't inherit.
>
> 10.1. http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visudet.html#containing-block-details
> Clearly says that the relative inline is clearly not the containing block for nested blocks.

These sections aren't really relevant here because another section
of the spec describes how the rendering tree (of boxes) is modified
when a block occurs within an inline.  In particular
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/CR-CSS21-20070719/visuren.html#anonymous-block-level
says:

# When an inline box contains a block box, the inline box (and its
# inline ancestors within the same line box) are broken around the
# block. The line boxes before the break and after the break are
# enclosed in anonymous boxes, and the block box becomes a sibling
# of those anonymous boxes. When such an inline box is affected by
# relative positioning, the relative positioning also affects the
# block box.

This explicitly answers your question about relative positioning
(although without that statement it would be pretty clearly the
opposite, since the box is not contained inside the inline).

-David

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