- From: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:27:36 -0700
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Apr 25, 2009, at 5:35 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > One could introduce a whole new CSS property to describe legend's > positioning behavior, but that would mean sorting our how it > interacts with existing display/position/float. One could add a > hack where if the position is static and the float is none then you > do the current behavior (though there are some interesting questions > regarding display still). That involves defining exactly what one > means by "legend" in that case. Right now in Gecko, the definition > is basically "this thing that's out of the fieldeset's flow in this > particular special way". OK, I could see how its more complicated in Gecko than I imagined. But is there any reason why it shouldn't become a more mundane inline- block element if its position was set to absolute? Or why its width cannot be set by the author to something else that would create a more normal width interaction?
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