[css2] added definition of replaced element and intrinsic dimension --

howcom · howcom · commit 6eb0f53a3285 · 1998-04-30T21:15:39.000Z
perhaps these should be defined inside the chapters, though?

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diff --git a/css2/conform.src b/css2/conform.src
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
 <html lang="en">
-<!-- $Id: conform.src,v 2.38 1998-04-16 22:13:03 ijacobs Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Id: conform.src,v 2.39 1998-04-30 21:15:39 howcome Exp $ -->
 <HEAD>
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
 <TITLE>Conformance: requirements and recommendations</TITLE>
@@ -87,6 +87,23 @@ of the document language. Most CSS style sheet rules use the names of
 these elements (such as "P", "TABLE", and "OL" for HTML) to specify
 rendering information for them.
 
+<dt><strong><span class="index-def" title="replaced element">Replaced
+element</span>
+
+<dd>An element that the CSS formatter only knows the intrinsic
+dimensions of. In HTML, 'IMG', 'INPUT', 'TEXTAREA', 'SELECT' and
+'OBJECT' elements can be examples of replaced elements. E.g., the
+content of the 'IMG' element is often replaced by the image that the
+SRC attribute points to. CSS does not define how the intrinsic
+dimensions are found.
+
+<dt><strong><span class="index-def" title="intrinsic
+dimensions">Intrinsic dimensions</span>
+
+<dd>The width and height as defined by the element itself, not imposed
+by the surroundings. In CSS2 it is assumed that all replaced elements
+-- and only replaced elements -- come with intrinsic dimensions.
+
 <dt><strong><span class="index-def" title="attribute"><a
 name="attribute">Attribute</a></span></strong>
 
