Re: [css3-regions] regions forming stacking contexts

Hi Boris,

On Feb 2, 2012, at 3:05 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote:

> On 2/2/12 5:55 AM, Alex Mogilevsky wrote:
>> The initial containing block for named flow is the first region. Not sure it is clearly defined now, but it is that way in paged media
>
> Browsers have some significant implementation differences in terms of
> how they handle paged media here.
>
> A simple example:  Say you have two rectangular regions, one 100px tall
> and the second 200px tall.  You have a child with the following styles:
>
>
>
> Do you get a 20px tall yellow box in the first region and an 80px tall
> yellow box in the second one?  Or just a 20px tall one in the first
> region?  Or something else?

>> You would get 20px in the first region and 80px in the second one.
>> This is the same behavior as what happens when printing an absolutely positioned box.
>> This falls out of the section 4.1 in the regions spec. stating that the ICB is the first region's box.

> What are the widths if the two regions have
> different widths?
>

>> In this case, the computed style on the box width is 100% which can only be resolved to a used value at layout time.
>> For the fragment of the element that falls into the first region, the used value is the width of that region, and likewise for the second region.
>> So yes, they have different widths.

>> I am attaching a test case with the screen shot that shows the rendering. You can actually try this out in the WebKit nightly build.

Cheers,
Vincent



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