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Re: [css3-writing-modes] i18n-ISSUE-166: isolate and direction property location

From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 13:37:13 -0800
Message-ID: <50B3E109.6010007@inkedblade.net>
To: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
CC: W3C Style <www-style@w3.org>, www International <www-international@w3.org>
On 10/17/2012 09:55 AM, Richard Ishida wrote:
> 2.2. Embeddings and Overrides: the ‘unicode-bidi’ property
> http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-writing-modes/#unicode-bidi
>
> "Within the element, its contents are considered, for the purposes of bidi resolution, to be inside a separate, independent
> document whose bidi paragraphs are assigned the base directionality specified by the element's ‘direction’ property."
>
> Or presumably also the direction specified on a parent element?

Not sure what you mean here... we only look at the element's own
'direction' property here; if it's set by the parent, it has already
inherited through and become the specified value on this element.

~fantasai
Received on Monday, 26 November 2012 21:37:50 UTC

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