- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:34:17 -0700
- To: Arron Eicholz <Arron.Eicholz@microsoft.com>
- CC: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
Arron Eicholz wrote: >> I don't think it makes sense for margins that aren't anywhere close >> to being "adjoining" to collapse. > > So... new issue: in > <div style="height: 500px;"> > <div style="height: 10px;"/> > </div> > We can't find anything in the spec that says these margins aren't > adjoining, but there's this sentence in 8.3.1 > # the expression collapsing margins means that adjoining margins > # (no non-empty content, padding or border areas or clearance > # separate them) of two or more boxes (which may be next to one > # another or nested) combine to form a single margin. > which says that they are adjoining and do collapse. > > Given the effort that went into that paragraph about min/max-height, > it doesn't seem like this interpretation was the spec writers' intent. > Are we missing a sentence somewhere else or is this really a gaping > hole in the Collapsing margins section? Filed as CSS2.1 Issue 67 http://csswg.inkedblade.net/spec/css2.1#issue-67 ~fantasai
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