- From: Anton Prowse <prowse@moonhenge.net>
- Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:15:49 +0100
- To: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
Resulting from discussion in the face-to-face on 2008-08-22,[1, 2] a decision was made to change 8.3.1 to state that vertical margins of block formatting contexts do not collapse with their in-flow children.[3] (Apparently this arose from discussion of Issue 14.[4]) Prior to the decision, it was well-known (if not explicitly mandated) that block formatting contexts were /not/ excluded from such margin collapsing.[5] To my knowledge this change wasn't discussed on this mailing list, and whilst I have no objection to the decision I would be interested to hear the thoughts of those involved in it, as it has a direct impact on recently-discussed ideas on a possible need for in-flow block-level neutral block formatting contexts.[6] Cheers, Anton Prowse http://dev.moonhenge.net [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Sep/0075.html (See section entitled "CSS2.1 Issues") [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Sep/0077.html [3] http://wiki.csswg.org/spec/css2.1#issue-70 [4] http://wiki.csswg.org/spec/css2.1#issue-14 [5] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2005Jan/0104.html (A clear explanation of the issue by Ian Hickson.) [6] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008May/0262.html
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