Re: [css4-images] element() behavior

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 5:49 AM, Simon Fraser <smfr@me.com> wrote:

> However, I wonder if this doesn't conflict with our earlier decision that
> when you render the element(), it's as if you're starting painting from the
> root, but only painting the target element and its descendants. Things like
> filters etc. will create stacking context. So if the element() target has
> an ancestor with a filter, we paint its positioned descendants in their
> normal painting order (affected by the fact that the filter creates
> stacking context), but we don't actually apply the effect of the filter.
>

Good point.

What we actually do in Gecko is treat the element target as a stacking
context when rendering its contents for element().

Rob
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