Sent by Rijk van Geijtenbeek on 19 January 2003 17:05
On Sun, 19 Jan 2003 13:52:35 +1000, Kevin W [EMAIL-REMOVED]> wrote:
>> Interesting. But as long as the position is static, the display isn't
>> forced to 'block', so I'm not convinced it should render on the next
>> line. IMHO this is a buglet in Opera.
>
> I'm not sure I quite understand you.
>
> Section 9.7, point 2 clearly says: "...(if) 'position' has the value
> 'absolute' or 'fixed', 'display' is set to 'block'..." In this case,
> position is indeed set to absolute, so display should be set to block.
> Adding an explicit "display: block;" into the source makes Mozilla behave
> exactly like Opera.
But at which point should the original as-if-static left and top
coordinates be extracted? From my reading of the spec, this is meant to be
done regarding the elements 'initial' inline position, so before it is set
to block, shifted to a new line etcetera. Mozilla and MSIE do this; Opera
doesn't.
See also http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/tests/css2/sec09-08-04.htm for a
demo; especially this rule:
SPAN.mark {position: absolute; top: auto; left: -2em; color: maroon;}
... clearly assumes that the positioned element stays on the same line.
This code is diectly taken from the CSS2 spec, end of section 9.8:
"The two hyphens acting as change bars are taken out of the flow and
positioned at the current line (due to 'top: auto')"
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/visuren.html#q29
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