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Re: Display

From: Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:36:08 -0400
Message-ID: <y2n7c2a12e21004271136j5fa28516z6ccece37dc81059d@mail.gmail.com>
To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
Cc: Colt Antonio Pini <Colt.Pini@nau.edu>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org> 
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote:
> (That said, check out the 'initial' value.  It's a special value that
> all properties accept, and which should be what you're asking for.  It
> still wouldn't solve your problem, though, for the reason above.)

Actually, display: initial is equivalent to display: inline.
<http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/visuren.html#display-prop>  A magic value
meaning "ignore all author rules and use whatever the UA stylesheet
says" would be very useful, but it's not what initial is.  As far as I
can tell, initial is only useful for certain weird cases like
border-color.
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