@@ -8712,26 +8712,26 @@ available width), preferred width).</p>
87128712</p>
87138713<h4 id="abs-non-replaced-width">Absolutely positioned, non-replaced elements</h4>
87148714
8715- <p>For the purposes of this section and the next, the term <span id="static-position"><span class="index">"static position"</span></span>
8716- (of an element) refers, roughly,
8717- to the position an element would have had in the normal flow. More
8718- precisely:
8715+ <p>In this section and the next, the term <span id="static-position">
8716+ <span class="index">"static position"</span></span> (of an element)
8717+ refers roughly to where an [=absolutely positioned element=] would
8718+ appear in the normal flow if it was statically positioned.
8719+ More precisely:
87198720</p>
87208721<ul>
87218722<li>The <dfn>static-position containing block</dfn> is the containing
87228723block of a hypothetical box that would have been the first box of the
8723- element if its specified 'position' value had been ''static''
8724+ [=absolutely positioned element=] if its specified 'position' value had been ''static''
87248725and its specified 'float' had been ''float/none''. (Note that due to the rules
87258726in <a href="#dis-pos-flo">section 9.7</a> this
87268727hypothetical calculation might require also assuming a different
87278728computed value for 'display'.)
87288729</li>
87298730<li>The static position for 'left' is the distance from the left edge
87308731of the containing block to the left margin edge of a hypothetical box
8731- that would have been the first box of the element if its 'position' property had been ''static''
8732- and 'float' had been ''float/none''. The
8733- value is negative if the hypothetical
8734- box is to the left of the containing block.
8732+ that would have been the first box of the [=absolutely positioned element=]
8733+ if its 'position' property had been ''static'' and 'float' had been ''float/none''.
8734+ The value is negative if the hypothetical box is to the left of the containing block.
87358735</li>
87368736<li>The static position for 'right' is the distance from the right
87378737edge of the containing block to the right margin edge of the same
@@ -8749,8 +8749,8 @@ block of fixed positioned elements is the initial containing block
87498749instead of the viewport, and all scrollable boxes should be assumed to
87508750be scrolled to their origin.
87518751
8752- <p>The constraint that determines the used values for these
8753- elements is :</p>
8752+ <p>For [=absolutely positioned element=], the used values of the horizontal
8753+ dimensions must satisfy this constraint :</p>
87548754
87558755 <blockquote>
87568756 <p>'left' + 'margin-left' + 'border-left-width' + 'padding-left' + 'width'
@@ -9272,15 +9272,14 @@ that the child box may be an <a href="#anonymous-block-level">anonymous block bo
92729272
92739273<h4 id="abs-non-replaced-height">Absolutely positioned, non-replaced elements</h4>
92749274
9275- <p>For the purposes of this section and the next, the term "static
9276- position" (of an element) refers, roughly, to the position an element
9277- would have had in the normal flow . More precisely, the static position
9275+ <p>In this section and the next, the term "static position" (of an element)
9276+ refers roughly to where an [=absolutely positioned element=] would appear in the
9277+ normal flow if it was statically positioned . More precisely, the static position
92789278for 'top' is the distance from the top edge of the containing block to
9279- the top margin edge of a hypothetical box that would have been the
9280- first box of the element if its specified 'position' value had been ''static''
9281- and its specified 'float' had been
9282- ''float/none'' and its specified 'clear'
9283- had been ''clear/none''. (Note that due to the rules
9279+ the top margin edge of a hypothetical box that would have been the first box of
9280+ the absolutely positioned element if its specified 'position'
9281+ value had been ''static'' and its specified 'float' had been ''float/none''
9282+ and its specified 'clear' had been ''clear/none''. (Note that due to the rules
92849283in <a href="#dis-pos-flo">section 9.7</a> this might
92859284require also assuming a different computed value for 'display'.)
92869285The value is negative if the hypothetical box is above the containing
@@ -9294,8 +9293,8 @@ position.
92949293block of fixed positioned elements is the initial containing block
92959294instead of the viewport.
92969295
9297- <p>For absolutely positioned elements, the used values of the vertical
9298- dimensions must satisfy this constraint:</p>
9296+ <p>For [= absolutely positioned element|absolutely positioned elements=],
9297+ the used values of the vertical dimensions must satisfy this constraint:</p>
92999298
93009299 <blockquote>
93019300 <p>'top' + 'margin-top' + 'border-top-width' + 'padding-top' + 'height'
@@ -9346,8 +9345,8 @@ values for 'margin-top' and 'margin-bottom' are set to 0 and solve for
93469345<h4 id="abs-replaced-height">Absolutely positioned, replaced elements</h4>
93479346
93489347<p>This situation is similar to the previous one, except that the
9349- element has an <a href="#intrinsic">intrinsic</a> height. The
9350- sequence of substitutions is now:
9348+ [=absolutely positioned element=] has an <a href="#intrinsic">intrinsic</a> height.
9349+ The sequence of substitutions is now:
93519350</p>
93529351<ol>
93539352
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