Sent by Scott Sauyet on 20 June 2002 12:12
>> "Two or more adjoining vertical margins of block boxes in the
>> normal flow collapse. The resulting margin width is the maximum of
>> the adjoining margin widths."
> The important word here is 'adjoining'. This seems to exclude nested
> boxes.
I don't think it does. If it read "The vertical margins of two or more
adjoining block boxes..." I would agree. In this case, the margins are
in fact adjoining.
> I wonder if the <p> margin will 'escape' thru more than one
> nested div top edge. (?)
It does.
> No matter how it's 'supposed' to work, it's still a design headache,
> and a useful demo. Thanks Joe!
I hope it didn't sound as though I were demeaning Joe's demo. It is
certainly a design headache. I was responding to this from his original
message:
>>> So, my question is, is this something everyone knew? Is this some
>>> aspect of the box model I have totally missed? Or is it a bona fide
>>> bug?
I don't think this is a bug, just an unfortunate artifact of a careful
reading of the specs.
> Note to Joe: try applying different rules (background/padding/margin,
> etc.) to the various elements. Could be that something will 'kill'
> this bug. Worth a shot. :]
I think the simplest thing, if it doesn't interfere with your design, is
to add one pixel of top and bottom padding to the zero-margin container.
Something else could be worked out with :first-child and :last-child, but
it would be more cumbersome, and would need some IE hacks.
-- Scott
