- From: Shelby Moore <shelby@coolpage.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 06:00:16 -0400
- To: shelby@coolpage.com
- Cc: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, www-style@w3.org
Clarification follows... >>> In other words, I expect the following in pane(1) where my inline >>> content >>> is in alphabetical order: >>> >>> ------------- >>> | | >>> ------------- >>> |A D| | >>> |B E| 2 | >>> |C F| | >>> ------------- >>> G J >>> H K >>> I L >>> >>> M P >>> N Q >>> O R >>> >>> But instead now I erroneously see: >>> >>> ------------- >>> | | >>> ------------- >>> |A J| | >>> |B K| 2 | >>> |C L| | >>> ------------- >>> D M >>> E N >>> F O >>> G P >>> H Q >>> I R >> [snip] > My HTML code for the above hypothetical example looks like this: > > <div style='overflow:auto; column-width:Xem'> > A > B > C > D > E > F > G > H > I > J > K > L > M > N > O > P > Q > R > </div> > > where 'X' is the width of one lettered unit. The lettered items above were intended to represent inline elements, so the actual code would be: <div style='overflow:auto; column-width:Xem'> <span style='display:inline-block'>A</a> <span style='display:inline-block'>B</a> <span style='display:inline-block'>C</a> <span style='display:inline-block'>D</a> <span style='display:inline-block'>E</a> <span style='display:inline-block'>F</a> <span style='display:inline-block'>G</a> <span style='display:inline-block'>H</a> <span style='display:inline-block'>I</a> <span style='display:inline-block'>J</a> <span style='display:inline-block'>K</a> <span style='display:inline-block'>L</a> <span style='display:inline-block'>M</a> <span style='display:inline-block'>N</a> <span style='display:inline-block'>O</a> <span style='display:inline-block'>P</a> <span style='display:inline-block'>Q</a> <span style='display:inline-block'>R</a> </div> Apologies if that oversight on my part was a source of confusion. The same problem would also applied to flowed text without any <span style='display:inline-block'>, it was just more difficult to draw a diagram to demonstrate that.
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