[css2] Clarified that percentages on margin properties in page context may refer to page box height

ianbjacobs · ianbjacobs · commit 3cfd88232ff4 · 1998-05-08T16:27:21.000Z
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diff --git a/css2/page.src b/css2/page.src
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
 <html lang="en">
-<!-- $Id: page.src,v 2.27 1998-05-06 02:23:32 ijacobs Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Id: page.src,v 2.28 1998-05-08 16:27:21 ijacobs Exp $ -->
 <HEAD>
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
 <TITLE>Paged media</TITLE>
@@ -134,8 +134,10 @@ area is '0'.
 <p>The <a href="#page-context">page context</a> has no notion of
 fonts, so 'em' and 'ex' units are not allowed. Percentage values on
 the margin properties are relative to the dimensions of the <a
-href="#page-box">page box</a>.  All other units associated with the
-respective CSS2 properties are allowed.
+href="#page-box">page box</a>; for left and right margins, they refer
+to page box width while for top and bottom margins, they refer to page
+box height.  All other units associated with the respective CSS2
+properties are allowed.
 
 <P>Due to negative margin values (either on the page box or on
 elements) or <a href="visuren.html#absolute-positioning">absolute
