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RE: [css-break] Breaking inside an inline-block element?

From: François REMY <francois.remy.dev@outlook.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 21:07:08 -0700
Message-ID: <DUB408-EAS14529F16337A5510AF708A4A5350@phx.gbl>
To: "'fantasai'" <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, <robert@ocallahan.org>
CC: "'www-style'" <www-style@w3.org>, "'Alan Stearns'" <stearns@adobe.com>, "'Rossen Atanassov'" <Rossen.Atanassov@microsoft.com>, "'Dave Cramer'" <dauwhe@gmail.com>
> > I think we shouldn't break inside inline-blocks (unless of course they
> > have fragmentainers of their own inside them).
> 
> Okay, I've clarified that
>    a) monolithic elements trap forced breaks
>    b) inline-level formatting context roots may be treated as monolithic
> 
>    # Such content is considered monolithic: it contains no possible break
>    # points. <ins>Any forced breaks within such boxes therefore cannot
>    # split the box, and must therefore also be ignored by the box’s own
>    # fragmentation context.</ins>
>    # ...
>    # Since line boxes contain no possible break points, inline-block and
>    # inline-table boxes (and other inline-level display types that
>    # establish a new formatting context) may also be considered monolithic.
> 
> https://drafts.csswg.org/css-break/#possible-breaks
> 
> Let me know if this looks okay, or if I should tweak any of the wording
> further.
> 
> Thanks~
> ~fantasai

This seems to provide clear guidance regarding the issue I had. You can consider this issue fixed for me, thanks.
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