- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:10:06 -0700
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- CC: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@W3.ORG>
Boris Zbarsky wrote: > > fantasai wrote: >> Alex, do we need to make a clarification here to avoid the IE<8 >> interpretation? I would have expected that the "if its 'position' >> property had been 'static'" bit would require guessing the position >> using the specified (not used) display property. > > Note that the latter is what Gecko implements, and is not necessarily > equivalent to the former. > > Consider these styles: > > display: inline; > float: left; > position: absolute; > > If the position were static, computed (and used) display would be > "block", while specified display is "inline". > > See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=237770 for some > discussion on this. > > Explicitly saying that the specified value should be used here makes > things clearer, though it's not quite right if the specified value is > "inherit" or "initial". My take from that bug is that both 'position' and 'float' are ignored (set to 'static' and 'none' respectively) when finding the static position. Is that correct? ~fantasai
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