- From: L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 12:28:15 -0800
- To: www-style@w3.org
- Message-ID: <20140210202815.GA18859@crum.dbaron.org>
http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-flexbox/#flex-baselines has a bunch of text about how CSS 2.1 doesn't define the baseline of block and table boxes, etc. However, it misses a distinction present in the underlying concepts. If CSS 2.1 defined a baseline, it would need to define *two* concepts of baseline, a last-line baseline concept used for inline-block and inline-table baseline alignment in http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visudet.html#propdef-vertical-align (which also uses the bottom edge for overflow != visible, and which, for compatibility, uses the first row of a table), and a first-line baseline concept used for table cell baseline alignment in http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/tables.html#height-layout . -David -- 𝄞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄢 Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂 Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense. - Robert Frost, Mending Wall (1914)
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