- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:00:17 -0700
- To: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On 08/19/2010 03:53 PM, fantasai wrote: > Various discussions on the mailing list lately have suggested tightening > up the prose regarding the anonymous table box that holds the captions > and the table box. Here are exact edits for Section 17.4 > http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/tables.html#model > > # In both cases, the table box generates an anonymous box that contains > # the table box itself and any caption boxes (in document order). > > s/table box/table/ > s/an anonymous box/a principal block box called the <dfn>outer table > box</dfn>/ > > And append: > > | The <dfn>table box</dfn> is a block-level box that contains the > | table's internal table boxes. > > # The caption boxes are block-level boxes that retain their own content, > # padding, margin, and border areas, and are rendered as normal blocks > > s/blocks/block boxes/ > > And then s/anonymous/outer table/ throughout the rest of this subsection. Actually, I'm thinking "table wrapper box" might be a better term than "outer table box" here, given the behavior. ~fantasai
Received on Thursday, 19 August 2010 23:00:52 UTC