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Re: [CSS2.1] Clarifying 8.3.1 Collapsing Margins

From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 01:10:59 -0700
Message-ID: <4C6B9593.10307@inkedblade.net>
To: "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>
CC: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On 07/28/2010 08:45 PM, L. David Baron wrote:
> On Wednesday 2010-07-28 20:01 -0700, fantasai wrote:
>>   | Two margins are adjoining if and only if:
>>   |   * no non-empty content, padding or border areas; line boxes;
>>   |     or clearance separate them
>>   |   * both belong to normal-flow block-level boxes in the same block
>>   |     formatting context
>
> Strictly speaking, we don't define what block formatting context an
> element is "in"; we only define that certain elements establish new
> block formatting contexts.  This means that technically, it's
> ambiguous whether an element that establishes a new block formatting
> context is in the BFC that it establishes.  In general, I think it
> makes more sense to say that it is (or, at the very least, that it's
> certainly not associated with any *other* block formatting context).
> However, this statement assumes that it is not.
>
> I think it is probably worth rewording to clarify this.

Changed "in" to "that participate in". I don't think it makes sense
for an element that establishes a new block formatting context to
be considered as /in/ the BFC that it establishes, though it could
reasonably be said to /contain/ that block formatting context.
Certainly it does not "participate" in the block formatting context
it establishes: it participates in its parent's block formatting
context, if it participates in a block formatting context at all.

>>   | Note. Adjoining boxes may be generated by elements that are not
>>   | related as siblings or ancestors.
>
> "adjoining margins" rather than "adjoining boxes"?

Yep.

~fantasai
Received on Wednesday, 18 August 2010 08:11:34 UTC

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