- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:44:55 -0800
- To: Simon Sapin <simon.sapin@kozea.fr>, MURAKAMI Shinyu <murakami@antenna.co.jp>, Michael Day <mikeday@yeslogic.com>
- CC: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On 01/26/2012 08:17 AM, Simon Sapin wrote: > Hi, > > Section 3.11 of css3-background says > >> The background of the root element becomes the background of the >> canvas and its background painting area extends to cover the entire >> canvas > > But where exactly is the canvas in Paged Media? > > In css3-page, section 7 defined precisely where the @page background is > drawn and how it is positioned. It could be updated to the Background 3 terminology (painting area, positioning area) but it > is not ambiguous is it stand. > >> The page background covers the entire page box, including the page >> margins. Background images are positioned as for any other box, by >> default anchored within the page area (i.e. the page box's content >> box); however if ‘background-attachment’ is ‘fixed’ then the image is >> positioned relative to the page box including its margins. Hmm, probably that should say "padding" instead of "margins" there... > Section 4.2 talks about the root element and the canvas, but is more ambiguous: > >> The root element then paints the canvas and the document contents >> within the page padding box. > > I think this implies that the background painting area is the page padding box, but it should be more explicit. As above, > consider using the Background 3 terminology. Seems like a good suggestion. Filed as ISSUE-226 https://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/Tracker/issues/226 Note: Background 3 terminology didn't exist when this was written. ;) > (Note: why not the border edge instead, as on "normal" boxes?) Good question. I don't know. If Antenna House and Prince agree, I'm happy to change it to whatever you three prefer. :) ~fantasai
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