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css3-writing-modes/Overview.html

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<h1>CSS Writing Modes Module Level 3</h1>
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<h2 class="no-num no-toc" id=longstatus-date>Editor's Draft 18 November
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<h2 class="no-num no-toc" id=longstatus-date>Editor's Draft 20 November
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2010</h2>
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horizontal writing modes, following the principles outlined below:
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<ul>
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<li>Calculations that refer to the width use height instead, and vice
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versa. See <a href="#dimensions">Logical vs Physical Dimensions</a> for
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details.
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<li>Calculations that refer to the &lsquo;<code
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<li>Layout calculation rules applied to the horizontal dimension in
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horizontal writing modes apply to the vertical dimension in vertical
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writing modes. Likewise, layout calculation rules applied to the vertical
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dimension in horizontal writing modes apply to the horizontal dimension
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in vertical writing modes. See <a href="#dimensions">Logical vs Physical
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Dimensions</a> for details.
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<li>Layout calculation rules that refer to the &lsquo;<code
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class=css>*-left</code>&rsquo; and &lsquo;<code
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class=css>*-right</code>&rsquo; box properties (border, margin, padding)
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use &lsquo;<code class=css>*-top</code>&rsquo; and &lsquo;<code
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class=css>*-bottom</code>&rsquo; instead, and vice versa. See <a
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href="#logical-directions">Logical Directions</a> for a fuller discussion
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of such direction-mapping.
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of such directional swapping.
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<li>Layout effects that depend on the &lsquo;<a href="#direction0"><code
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<li>Layout rules that depend on the &lsquo;<a href="#direction0"><code
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class=property>direction</code></a>&rsquo; property to choose between
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left and right (e.g. overflow, overconstraint resolution, the initial
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value for &lsquo;<code class=property>text-align</code>&rsquo;, table
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column ordering) are abstracted to the <a href="#start">start</a> and <a
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href="#end">end</a> sides and mapped appropriately.
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href="#end">end</a> sides and applied appropriately.
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the horizontal writing modes, following the principles outlined below:
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<li>Calculations that refer to the width use height instead, and vice
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versa. See <a href="#dimensions">Logical vs Physical Dimensions</a>
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for details.</li>
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<li>Calculations that refer to the '*-left' and '*-right' box properties
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(border, margin, padding) use '*-top' and '*-bottom'
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<li>Layout calculation rules applied to the horizontal dimension in
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horizontal writing modes apply to the vertical dimension in vertical
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writing modes. Likewise, layout calculation rules applied to the
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vertical dimension in horizontal writing modes apply to the horizontal
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dimension in vertical writing modes. See <a href="#dimensions">Logical vs
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Physical Dimensions</a> for details.</li>
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<li>Layout calculation rules that refer to the '*-left' and '*-right'
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box properties (border, margin, padding) use '*-top' and '*-bottom'
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instead, and vice versa.
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See <a href="#logical-directions">Logical Directions</a> for a fuller
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discussion of such direction-mapping.
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<li>Layout effects that depend on the 'direction' property to choose between
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discussion of such directional swapping.
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<li>Layout rules that depend on the 'direction' property to choose between
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left and right (e.g. overflow, overconstraint resolution, the initial
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value for 'text-align', table column ordering)
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are abstracted to the <a href="#start">start</a> and
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<a href="#end">end</a> sides and mapped appropriately.</li>
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<a href="#end">end</a> sides and applied appropriately.</li>
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<p>For features such as text alignment, floating, and list marker positioning,

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