[CSS21][css-text] percentages on text-indent

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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Received on Wednesday, 11 February 2015 00:38:20 UTC