- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 20:29:51 -0500
- To: "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>, www-style@w3.org, Tantek Çelik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu>
On 02/10/2015 07:37 PM, L. David Baron wrote: > 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)? Well, the 'Applies-to' line says it applies to block containers, and a block container's containing block is the containing of the block to which text-indent has been applied. > Apparently browsers disagree on this. Making the spec's wording > more precise seems likely to help. Spec's wording is precise. Whether it's what we want might be a different question. This issue was raised a long time ago, apparently: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45631#c14 https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-css-wg/2004JanMar/0049.html And the result was no change, apparently? Tantek? ~fantasai
Received on Wednesday, 11 February 2015 01:30:27 UTC