- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:49:05 -0500
- To: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
Consider the following testcase:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<body>
<span style="display:run-in">
<span style="float: left">Some text</span>
</span>
<div style="clear:both">More text</div>
</body>
What is the expected rendering? I believe the agreed-on behavior for
the run-in here was that the run-in should run in and the containing
block for the float should be the div, but the section on 'clear' says:
The clearance of the generated box is set to the amount necessary
to place the top border edge below the bottom outer edge of any
right-floating and left-floating boxes that resulted from elements
earlier in the source document. [1]
In this case the float is clearly resulting from "elements earlier in
the source document".
How do we want to reconcile these two things? It seems to me that the
definition of 'clear' needs to be modified, or the behavior of run-ins
needs to be changed to not run in if that would cause floats to float
out of them.
-Boris
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#flow-control
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