- From: Gérard Talbot <www-style@gtalbot.org>
- Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 18:47:47 -0800
- To: "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Cc: "www-style mailing list" <www-style@w3.org>
Le Jeu 1 décembre 2011 12:39, L. David Baron a écrit : > On Thursday 2011-12-01 15:12 -0500, Boris Zbarsky wrote: >> On 12/1/11 3:09 PM, Simon Sapin wrote: >> >Le 01/12/2011 21:06, Kang-Hao (Kenny) Lu a écrit : >> >>If I understand correctly, 'display: table' is still not mentioned in >> >>this sentence. >> >> >> >>I would sincerely appreciate it if there's venn-diagram here showing >> >>which of the display types belong to which categories as these are >> used >> >>everywhere. >> > >> >"Table cells" in this sentence is short for "boxes with `display: >> >table-cell`". >> > >> >What do you mean by "categories"? >> >> Right now, answering the question "What elements does the 'overflow' >> property apply to?" is rocket science. It says it applies to "block >> containers", but the text isn't a link, and actually finding the >> definition of that term, assuming there is one at all, is >> near-impossible. > > I think the definition it's intending to refer to is the second > sentence of this: > > # Except for table boxes, which are described in a later chapter, > # and replaced elements, a block-level box is also a block > # container box. A block container box either contains only > # block-level boxes or establishes an inline formatting context > # and thus contains only inline-level boxes. Not all block > # container boxes are block-level boxes: non-replaced inline > # blocks and non-replaced table cells are block containers but not > # block-level boxes. Block-level boxes that are also block > # containers are called block boxes. > --http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#block-boxes > > which is admittedly rather imprecise (since it defines the > characteristics of a block container box rather than defining what > causes a box to be one), but I think it's pretty clear that tables > are not block container boxes, and therefore, according to CSS 2.1, > the 'overflow' property does not apply to tables. > > -David Then, this testcase http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/nightly-unstable/html4/overflow-applies-to-013.htm is invalid (only Opera 11.52 really correctly passes such test; Firefox 8.01, Chrome 15.0.874.121, Konqueror 4.7.3, IE9 fail such test) while that testcase http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/nightly-unstable/html4/fixed-table-layout-009.htm requires text assert and code corrections. overflow applies to inline-table elements though according to http://wiki.csswg.org/spec/css2.1#issue-217 I can't help think that it's kinda weird ... overflow applies to inline-tables but not to fixed-width tables. <shrug> Gérard Talbot -- CSS 2.1 Test suite RC6, March 23rd 2011 http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/20110323/html4/toc.html Contributions to CSS 2.1 test suite http://www.gtalbot.org/BrowserBugsSection/css21testsuite/ Web authors' contributions to CSS 2.1 test suite http://www.gtalbot.org/BrowserBugsSection/css21testsuite/web-authors-contributions-css21-testsuite.html
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