[css2] Tanteks' edits: added note about 'clear' property and inline elements.

bert-github · bert-github · commit 33e291bc78ec · 2003-03-21T15:53:22.000Z
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diff --git a/css2/visuren.src b/css2/visuren.src
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
 <html lang="en">
-<!-- $Id: visuren.src,v 2.95 2003-01-27 22:30:55 bbos Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Id: visuren.src,v 2.96 2003-03-21 15:53:22 bbos Exp $ -->
 <head>
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
 <title>Visual formatting model</title>
-<!-- Changed by: Tantek Celik, 2003-01-20 -->
+<!-- Changed by: Tantek Celik, 2003-03-06 -->
 <style type="text/css">
 .current,.proposed { background:#feb }
 ins.proposed { background:#bfb }
@@ -123,9 +123,10 @@ and 'table'.
 </p>
 <p>Block-level elements generate a <span class="index-def"
 title="principal block box"><a name="principal-box"><dfn>principal
-block box</dfn></a></span> that only contains <span class="index-def"
+block box</dfn></a></span> that contains either only <span class="index-def"
 title="block box"><a name="block-box"><dfn>block
-boxes</dfn></a></span>. The principal block box establishes the <a
+box</dfn>es</a></span> or only <span class="index-def"
+title="inline box"><a name="inline-box"><dfn>inline box</dfn>es</a></span>. The principal block box establishes the <a
 href="#containing-block">containing block</a> for descendant boxes and
 generated content and is also the box involved in any positioning
 scheme.  Principal block boxes participate in a <a
@@ -1183,18 +1184,24 @@ source document.
 <dd>No constraint on the box's position with respect to floats.</dd>
 </dl>
 
-<p>When applied to inline elements, rather than increasing the top margin as 
-explained above, one or more empty line boxes are inserted to move 
+<p class="note">
+Note: This property applied to all elements in CSS1. Implementations 
+may therefore have supported this property on all elements. In CSS2 
+and CSS 2.1 the 'clear' property only applies to block-level elements. 
+Therefore authors should only use this property on block-level
+elements.  If an implementation does support clear on inline elements, 
+rather than increasing the top margin as explained above, 
+the implementation should insert one or more empty line boxes to move 
 the top of the cleared inline's line box to below the respective floating box(es).
 </p>
-
+<del>
+<p>
 Example:
-
-<PRE>
+</p>
+<pre>
 span { clear: left }
-</PRE>
-
-
+</pre>
+</del>
 <p>When the property is set on floating elements, it results in a
 modification of the <a href="#float-rules">rules</a> for
 positioning the float. An extra constraint (#10) is added:
