[css2] Added 2 paras about integer and number syntax.

bert-github · bert-github · commit ef5202f0d7c2 · 1997-09-30T18:29:28.000Z
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diff --git a/css2/syndata.src b/css2/syndata.src
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
 <html lang="en">
-<!-- $Id: syndata.src,v 1.14 1997-09-24 22:05:03 ian Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Id: syndata.src,v 1.15 1997-09-30 18:29:28 bbos Exp $ -->
 <HEAD>
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
 <TITLE>CSS2 syntax and basic data types</TITLE>
@@ -312,6 +312,16 @@ to:
 	    class="value-def">&lt;number&gt;</a></span> in this
 	specification. A number may or may not have a decimal point.
 
+<P>In CSS2, numbers and integers are in decimal notation only. An
+&lt;integer> consists of one or more digits "0" to "9". A &lt;number>
+can either be an &lt;integer>, or it can be zero of more digits
+followed by a dot followed by one or more digits. Both integers and
+numbers may be preceded by a "-" or "+" to indicate the sign.
+
+<P>Note that many properties that allow a number or integer as value
+actually restrict the value to some range, often to a non-negative
+value.
+
 <H3><A NAME="length-units">Lengths</A></H3>
 
 <P> The format of a length value (denoted by <span class="index-def"
