> -----Original Message----- > From: L. David Baron [mailto:dbaron@dbaron.org] > Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2015 4:38 PM > > 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. Good point, I can see how this can be interpreted either way - containing block of the text content or the block itself. > 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)? Our rationale has been that the text-indent is a property effecting the inline content of a block, similar to text-alignment, align-content etc. In this respect resolving the text-indent percentage against the block itself makes the behavior independent of the block's containing block. With that resizing the block's containing block has no effect to text-indent in the case the block has a fixed width. > Apparently browsers disagree on this. Making the spec's wording more > precise seems likely to help. Totally agree - let's fix it. Thanks, RossenReceived on Wednesday, 11 February 2015 00:58:19 UTC
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