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1 | 1 | <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> |
2 | 2 | <html lang="en"> |
3 | | -<!-- $Id: visuren.src,v 2.52 1998-04-23 23:45:59 ijacobs Exp $ --> |
| 3 | +<!-- $Id: visuren.src,v 2.53 1998-04-28 17:33:51 bbos Exp $ --> |
4 | 4 | <HEAD> |
5 | 5 | <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> |
6 | 6 | <TITLE>Visual formatting model</TITLE> |
@@ -64,13 +64,14 @@ views of the same document). |
64 | 64 | <a name="containing-block">Containing blocks</a></span> |
65 | 65 | </H3> |
66 | 66 |
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67 | | -<P>In CSS2, all box positions are calculated with respect to the edges |
| 67 | +<P>In CSS2, many box positions and sizes are calculated with respect |
| 68 | +to the edges |
68 | 69 | of a rectangular box called a <span class="index-def" |
69 | 70 | title="containing block"><dfn>containing block</dfn></span>. In |
70 | 71 | general, generated boxes act as containing blocks for descendant |
71 | 72 | boxes; we say that a box "establishes" the containing block for its |
72 | 73 | descendants. The phrase "a box's containing block" means "the |
73 | | -containing block in which the box lives", not the one it generates. |
| 74 | +containing block in which the box lives," not the one it generates. |
74 | 75 |
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75 | 76 | <P>Each box is given a position with respect to its containing block, |
76 | 77 | but it is not confined by this containing block; it may <a |
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1775 | 1776 | <P>The characters in certain scripts are written from right to left. |
1776 | 1777 | In some languages, in particular those written with the Arabic or |
1777 | 1778 | Hebrew script, and in some mixed-language contexts, text in a single |
1778 | | -(visually displayed) block can therefore appear with mixed |
| 1779 | +(visually displayed) block can appear with mixed |
1779 | 1780 | directionality. This phenomenon is called <span class="index-def" |
1780 | 1781 | title="bidirectionality (bidi)"><dfn>bidirectionality</dfn></span>, or |
1781 | 1782 | "bidi" for short. For an introduction to bidirectionality issues, |
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