Re: CSS vs embedded plugin content

On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 10:41 PM, Henrik Andersson <henke@henke37.cjb.net> wrote:
> Is there a summary of how CSS interacts with complex replaced content
> such as plugins?
>
> For those hiding under rocks and/or living in a fantasy world, with
> plugins I mean things like Flash, Java applets, ActiveX and so on.
> Anything that uses the <embed>,<applet> or <object> elements in HTML.

Those are "replaced elements", which means CSS controls the
sizing/positioning of the element itself (though replaced elements
different from normal elements in many respects there), but are
treated as opaque otherwise; anything "inside of" the element is
untouchable by CSS.

~TJ

Received on Thursday, 5 February 2015 12:27:32 UTC