Re: [CSS21] Does the root element establish a root block formatting context?

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:18:15 -0400
To: Alan Gresley <alan@css-class.com>
CC: www-style@w3.org
Message-ID: <4C773C87.3060107@mit.edu>

On 8/26/10 10:45 PM, Alan Gresley wrote:
> The part "base writing direction of blocks" is in other words a 'block
> formatting context'.

No, it in fact is not.  Please look up the quite different definition of 
"block formatting context" in CSS2.1.

-Boris

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