- From: Andrew Fedoniouk <news@terrainformatica.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:39:42 -0700
- To: Alan Gresley <alan@css-class.com>
- CC: robert@ocallahan.org, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, dbaron@dbaron.org, www-style@w3.org
Alan Gresley wrote: > > Andrew Fedoniouk wrote: > >> inline elements have no concept of dimension. > > > Andrew..... > > What about the text within any inline element or line box? The default > is 16px (1em~1.2em) in height with a 96dpi setting and each glyph is > about 10 pixels wide. This also applies to the intrinsic dimensions of > an image. > We are speaking about different things. Image is display:inline-block; element strictly speaking. display:inline elements have no meaning for width and height as they are not solid blocks but rather fluid chains of boxes - e.g. characters and inline-block elements. -- Andrew Fedoniouk. http://terrainformatica.com
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