- From: Alan Stearns <stearns@adobe.com>
- Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 17:29:26 -0700
- To: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
I suppose this could be [css3-page] or [css3-multicol] as well. I've been working on test cases for how content gets split across region boundaries in the absence of explicit breaks. I think that splitting content across region, column or page boundaries should be substantially (or entirely) the same for unforced breaks. There is some guidance in the spec about the expected behavior. For instance, in 2.3.2 (Allowed region breaks) it's suggested that it's OK to split between line boxes in a block container box. And 2.3.4 says "Avoid breaking inside a replaced element," though that's just a recommendation. It makes perfect sense to me to avoid splitting replaced elements - an image or video should be displayed intact if at all possible. But there may also be non-replaced elements that are best left intact. For example, I'm not sure it makes sense to split a button that contains multiple line boxes across a region (or column or page) boundary. Should the spec go into more detail about unforced break preferences? Are there any other non-replaced elements that are best left intact? The spec only makes recommendations, so there won't be testcases for this. Should it matter if one implementation chooses to allow buttons to split across boundaries but another implementation pushes the whole button past the boundary? Thanks, Alan
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