- From: Øyvind Stenhaug <oyvinds@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:13:00 +0100
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:38:18 +0100, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Øyvind Stenhaug <oyvinds@opera.com> > wrote: >> - It doesn't say that the decorations are propagated when specified on >> an >> inline (unless I'm misunderstanding the meaning of "box generated by >> that >> element" and/or "text of an element") > > They shouldn't be propagated (in fact, there's a note that doing so is > a mistake), but they should still be applied to the entire inline, > descendants and all. Right, I meant the cases without floats etc., such as an otherwise-unstyled <span style="text-decoration:underline">A<span>B</span></span> where I assume (haven't found anything explicit in the spec) that the first span generates a single inline box that contains A but not B's box. For "other elements" there's wording about an anonymous inline box, but not for "inline element"s (whatever that means; display:inline?). >> - It's not very obvious that visibility:hidden on an element >> (apparently) >> applies to decorations specified on that element (making them invisible, >> also when propagating) but not to propagated decorations specified on an >> ancestor > > Yeah, that's not clear. I'm not sure where that's being gotten from. > >> - As for decoration specified on a given element being ignored if the >> same >> type (e.g. underline, line-through) is propagated from an ancestor, is >> that >> what "cannot have any effect on the decoration of the ancestor" is >> meant to >> say? If so, maybe it would be clearer if, say, "of" were to be replaced >> with >> "propagated from". > > Hmm, I assumed the reverse - that it simply wouldn't reach up and > change the ancestor's decoration. But your reading makes more sense. I always read it that way too when skimming this section in the past, but yes, it didn't make much sense. -- Øyvind Stenhaug Core Norway, Opera Software ASA
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