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RE: [css3-multicol] Spanning elements and BFCs in Webkit

From: Alex Mogilevsky <alexmog@microsoft.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 04:33:05 +0000
To: David Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com>, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
CC: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
Message-ID: <D51C9E849DDD0D4EA38C2E53985692841229508E@TK5EX14MBXC218.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> 
± From: David Hyatt
± Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 6:06 PM
± 
± The current *intended* behavior in WebKit is that the anonymous block 
± that encloses the spanning elements establish a BFC, and that the 
± spanning elements do not.
± 
± Feel free to file a bug on me with that test case, although I suppose 
± we can wait and see what's officially decided first.

This makes more sense to me than just collapsing margins outside BFC. If the intent is for consequent colspans to behave as normal flow, I think this is the best choice.

Alex
Received on Thursday, 29 September 2011 04:33:35 UTC

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