- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:27:33 -0700
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- CC: Ingo Chao <i4chao@googlemail.com>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:00:00 +0200, fantasai > <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net> wrote: >> Ingo Chao wrote: >>> Note: For absolutely positioned elements whose containing block is >>> based on a block-level element, the percentage is calculated with >>> respect to the width of the padding box of that element. >>> Why was this note not added to 10.5 Content height? >> >> Recorded as Issue 50, assumed editorial. >> http://csswg.inkedblade.net/spec/css2.1#issue-50 >> >> The note was added on 3 March 2005, along with the previous sentence >> about percentage widths for shrink-wrapped elements. > > This note looks similar to the ones being removed by issue-43. Is it > still valid? Good catch. It's valid but has the same problem, and should probably be tweaked to remove "whose containing block is based on a block-level element". ~fantasai
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