[CSS2.1] What counts as "an element which contains no text" for the rules in 16.3.1? from Zachary Weinberg on 2008-07-03 (www-style@w3.org from July 2008)

From: Zachary Weinberg <zweinberg@mozilla.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 10:34:18 -0700 (PDT)
To: www-style <www-style@w3.org>
Message-ID: <32352542.88221215106458911.JavaMail.root@cm-mail01.mozilla.org>

fantasai's sweep of open issues reminded me that I have another question about text-decoration propagation.

CSS2.1 section 16.3.1 contains the sentence

# If an element contains no text, user agents must refrain from
# rendering text decorations on the element.

Suppose, then, that you have something like

  <del>one <span style="display:inline-block"><span>two</span></span></del>

Should the word "two" be crossed out?  In other words, does the outer of the two SPANs count as "an element which contains no text", despite having a descendant box that does contain text?  Does your answer change if there is no inner SPAN tag, so the descendant box is anonymous?

I put a complete test case at <http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=327987>.  It is clear (IMO) that the green and pink boxes should not have a line drawn across them, but I'm not sure about the word "all" on the third line.

zw

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