- From: Anton Prowse <prowse@moonhenge.net>
- Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 09:39:57 +0200
- To: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
- CC: "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
On 16/09/2010 07:36, L. David Baron wrote: > On Wednesday 2010-09-15 02:00 -0700, fantasai wrote: >> | * both belong to normal-flow block-level boxes that participate >> | in the same block formatting context > > How about changing this to something like the following two points: > > * neither belongs to an out-of-flow box > * both belong to block-level boxes that participate in > the same block formatting context (where an in-flow block > that establishes a new block formatting context is considered to > participate in the block formatting context outside it) > > That makes it clear that the margins of 'overflow:hidden' elements > can collapse with what's outside them but not what's inside them, > and that margins of out-of-flows never collapse. I agree with fantasai that participation in a block formatting context should be defined appropriately in 9.4.1 rather than worked around piecemeal in other places in the spec. Cheers, Anton Prowse http://dev.moonhenge.net
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