- From: Alan Gresley <alan@css-class.com>
- Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 04:07:20 +1100
- To: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>
- CC: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, www-style@w3.org
On 13/11/2010 5:05 AM, Alan Gresley wrote: > That would work much better if some of those block were floating but as > the spec stands now, this can not happen. There are two consequences of > a BFC. > > 1. The border box of a BFC can not overlap floats in the same BFC. > 2. The margin box of a float must be fully contained by nearest ancestor > that establishes a BFC. With the right mixture of floats and writing-mode you can get the opposite of what is seen with a BFC. This opposite is a complete overlapping of floats. Both IE8 and IE9 show buggy behavior with this test. <http://css-class.com/test/temp/writing-mode-float2.htm> -- Alan http://css-class.com/ Armies Cannot Stop An Idea Whose Time Has Come. - Victor Hugo
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