- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 12:59:34 -0800
- To: "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 12:28 PM, L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org> wrote: > 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 . Just to make sure I'm reading this right, you're saying that we need to define the last-line baseline for flexbox and the other things in that section? ~TJ
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