[css2] Better description of auto height for floats and abs. pos. elts., as

bert-github · bert-github · commit 1299d3e58c5e · 2003-08-25T08:20:54.000Z
decided at Oslo ftf.

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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 2.74 2003-08-24 22:09:56 bbos Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Id: visudet.src,v 2.75 2003-08-25 08:20:54 bbos Exp $ -->
 <head>
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
 <title>Visual formatting model details</title>
@@ -853,15 +853,17 @@ applies.</p>
 
 <ol>
 <li>'top' and 'height' are 'auto' and 'bottom' is not 'auto', then the
-height is based on the content, set 'auto' values for 'margin-top' and
+height is based on the content (see <a href="#flow-root-height">"auto
+height..."</a>), set 'auto' values for 'margin-top' and
 'margin-bottom' to 0, and solve for 'top'</li>
 
 <li>'top' and 'bottom' are 'auto' and 'height' is not 'auto', then
 set 'top' to the static position, set 'auto' values for 'margin-top'
 and 'margin-bottom' to 0, and solve for 'bottom'</li>
 
 <li>'height' and 'bottom' are 'auto' and 'top' is not 'auto', then the
-height is based on the content, set 'auto' values for 'margin-top' and
+height is based on the content (see <a href="#flow-root-height">"auto
+height..."</a>), set 'auto' values for 'margin-top' and
 'margin-bottom' to 0, and solve for 'bottom'</li>
 
 <li>'top' is 'auto', 'height' and 'bottom' are not 'auto', then set
@@ -922,8 +924,13 @@ value.
 class="propinst-margin-bottom">'margin-bottom'</span> are 'auto',
 their used value is 0. If <span
 class="propinst-height">'height'</span> is 'auto', the height depends
-on the element's descendants:
+on the element's descendants, see the next section.
 </p>
+
+
+<h3><a name="flow-root-height">'Auto' height for floats and absolutely
+positioned elements</a></h3>
+
 <p>If it only has inline-level children, the height is the distance
 between the top of the topmost line box and the bottom of the
 bottommost line box.
@@ -938,14 +945,15 @@ positioned boxes are considered without their offset. Note that the
 child box may be an <a
 href="visuren.html#anonymous-block-level">anonymous block box.</a>
 </p>
-<p>In addition, if the element has any floating descendants whose top
-margin edge is above the top established above or whose bottom margin
+<p>In addition, if the element has any floating descendants whose
+bottom margin
 edge is below the bottom, then the height is increased to include
 those edges. Only floats that are children of the element itself or of
 descendants in the normal flow are taken into account, i.e., floats
 inside absolutely positioned descendants are not.
 </p>
 
+
 <h2><a name="min-max-heights">Minimum and maximum heights</a>: <span
 class="propinst-min-height">'min-height'</span> and <span
 class="propinst-max-height">'max-height'</span></h2>
