[css2] Added escape clause for absolutely positioned elements in paged media,

bert-github · bert-github · commit 06775204da50 · 2005-03-25T18:00:58.000Z
see http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-css-wg/2005JanMar/0202.html --HG-- extra : convert_revision : svn%3A73dc7c4b-06e6-40f3-b4f7-9ed1dbc14bfc/trunk%402285
diff --git a/css2/visudet.src b/css2/visudet.src
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
 <html lang="en">
-<!-- $Id: visudet.src,v 2.101 2005-03-03 22:46:08 bbos Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Id: visudet.src,v 2.102 2005-03-25 18:00:58 bbos Exp $ -->
 <head>
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
 <title>Visual formatting model details</title>
@@ -86,6 +86,13 @@ relative to its containing block ignoring any page breaks (as if the
 document were continuous). The element may subsequently be broken over
 several pages.
 </p>
+
+<p>For absolutely positioned content that resolves to a position on a
+page other than the page being laid out (the current page), or
+resolves to a position on the current page which has already been
+rendered for printing, printers may place the content on the current
+page, in another convenient location or may omit it.
+
 <p class="note">Note that a
 block-level element that is split over several pages may have a different
 width on each page and that there may be device-specific limits.
