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[css-writing-modes] Clarifications and issue about need for clarification...
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<h4 id="orthogonal-auto">
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Auto-sizing in Orthogonal Flows</h4>
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Available Sizes in Orthogonal Flows</h4>
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<p>It is common in CSS for a containing block to have a definite <i>inline size</i>,
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but not a definite <i>block size</i>.
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is infinite.
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<p>Putting a box in an <i>orthogonal flow</i> allows the opposite to happen:
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for the <i>available block size</i> to be defined,
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for the <i>available block size</i> to be definite,
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but the <i>available inline size</i> to be indefinite.
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In such cases a percentage of the containing block’s <i>inline size</i> cannot be defined,
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and <i>inline axis</i> computations cannot be resolved.
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In these cases, the initial containing block's size is used
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as a <i>fallback</i> variable in place of the <i>available inline size</i>
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for calculations that require a definite <i>available inline size</i>.
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<p class="issue">What is this section trying to say? I can't remember. :(
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<p>See [[!CSS3-SIZING]] for further details on CSS sizing terminology and concepts.
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<h4 id=auto-multicol>
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Auto-sizing Block Containers in Orthogonal Flows</h4>
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<p>
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If a box establishing an <i>orthogonal flow</i> is a block container or multi-column element,
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If a box establishing an <i>orthogonal flow</i> is
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either a block container or a multi-column element,
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for the case where the box's <i>inline size</i> is ''width/auto'':
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<img src="auto-multicol.svg" width=200
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alt="Diagram of automatically triggered multi-column preventing T-shaped documents">
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Note that this automatically triggers multi-column flow on all block containers.
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<strong>Note that this requirement automatically triggers multi-column flow on all block containers.</strong>
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This is so that overflowing content, instead of continuing off the side of the containing block,
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is wrapped into columns in the flow direction of the containing block,
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thus avoiding T-shaped documents.

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