Re: [css3-text-overflow] Question regarding float and text-overflow: ellipsis

On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:39:17 +0200, Alan Gresley <alan@css-class.com>  
wrote:

> I have change my mind. Firefox is handling what is a over constrained  
> situation correctly. The line box (with or without eclipses) has to be  
> painted over the floated input.

Just to avoid some possible confusion, the thing that overlaps the float  
is an inline box, in CSS terminology. What the spec calls a "line box"  
(and I assumed the same meaning in my mail) does not overlap the float.  
See <http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#inline-formatting>.

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Øyvind Stenhaug
Opera Software ASA