- From: Uri Bernstein <urib@google.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 15:18:47 +0300
- To: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Cc: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>, "public-i18n-bidi@w3.org" <public-i18n-bidi@w3.org>, Simon Montagu <smontagu@smontagu.org>, "Aharon (Vladimir) Lanin" <aharon@google.com>
- Message-ID: <BANLkTi=jC_WhxRmN-CC7UPjBt+R_7-dU5Q@mail.gmail.com>
This seems reasonable to me. One question - do you literally mean "the element's parent's direction", or do you actually mean "the element's containing block's direction"? I think the latter makes more sense. --Uri. On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 00:55, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>wrote: > http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/box.html#bidi-box-model > > # When the element's 'direction' property is 'ltr', the left-most > generated box of > # the first line box in which the element appears has the left margin, > left border > # and left padding, and the right-most generated box of the last line box > in which > # the element appears has the right padding, right border and right > margin. > # > # When the element's 'direction' property is 'rtl', the right-most > generated box > # of the first line box in which the element appears has the right > padding, right > # border and right margin, and the left-most generated box of the last > line box in > # which the element appears has the left margin, left border and left > padding. > > The issue is when inlines are broken across lines. Right now we decide > which side > of the first/last box to draw the start/end decorations on based on the > element's > 'direction' property. But I believe it should be the element's /parent's/ > direction > property. > > Here's why: > > Consider that you are embedding some text, e.g. a quote, into a paragraph. > You > want to space it off a bit from the surrounding content, like this: > > q { > margin: 0 0.5em; > } > > |Here is some text AND HERE IS MY QUOTE| > |THAT CONTINUES ON THE LINE and my text| > |continues. | > > If the quote happens to be of opposite-direction text, the separation > doesn't > work anymore, because we placed the box decorations based on the quote's > directionality and not the paragraph's directionality. > > |Here is some text ETOUQ YM SI EREH DNA | > | ENIL EHT NO SEUNITNOC TAHT and my text| > |continues. | > > Now, we definitely want the left border on the left side and the right > border > on the right side, but I'm starting to think we should have chosen > differently > which side is the "broken" side when the element breaks across lines. > > Here's the example again using brackets to represent borders. > > |Here is some text [AND HERE IS MY QUOTE| > |THAT CONTINUES ON THE LINE] and my text| > |continues. | > > |Here is some text ETOUQ YM SI EREH DNA] | > | [ENIL EHT NO SEUNITNOC TAHT and my text| > |continues. | > > Aharon, smontagu -- thoughts? > > Is this something we should fix? > > ~fantasai > >
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