- From: L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 11:37:52 +1100
- To: www-style@w3.org
- Message-ID: <20150211003752.GA14268@pescadero.dbaron.org>
From a side discussion with Greg Whitworth at the face-to-face
meeting (triggered by Greg pointing out
https://twitter.com/HugoGiraudel/status/565093151904645120 ):
Looking at either:
http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css2/text.html#indentation-prop
http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-text/#text-indent-property
it's not clear what percentages on text-indent mean.
It says that percentages refer to the width of the containing block:
but is that the containing block of the line with the text, or the
containing block of the block to which text-indent applies (i.e.,
the first block's containing block)?
Apparently browsers disagree on this. Making the spec's wording
more precise seems likely to help.
-David
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