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[css-display-3] Tables are also an exception to normal box parentage. #3158
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<a>Boxes</a> are often referred to by their 'display' type--
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e.g. a <a>box</a> generated by an element with ''display: block'' is called a “block box” or just a “block”.
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The <dfn export for=CSS>parent box</dfn> of an element’s <a>principal box</a>
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is (except in the case of ''run-in'' or the generation of intervening <a>anonymous boxes</a>)
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is, in general,
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the <a>principal box</a> of its nearest ancestor element
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that generates a <a>box</a>.
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that generates a <a>box</a>;
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there are exceptions for ''run-in'' boxes,
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display types that generate multiple boxes (such as tables),
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and intervening <a>anonymous boxes</a>.
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A <a>box</a> is assigned the same styles as its generating [=CSS/element=], unless otherwise indicated.
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In general, <a>inherited properties</a> are assigned to the <a>principal box</a>,

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