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Bug 12470 - In the last paragraph, please add the word "vertical", since the intent is apparently that _vertical_ margins at the top or bottom of body, td, or th elements be collapsed to zero. That's what browsers do in quirks mode. But horizontal margins are honored
Summary: In the last paragraph, please add the word "vertical", since the intent is ap...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LC1 HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-04-11 10:11 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-08-04 05:05 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-04-11 10:11:34 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/rendering.html
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#margins-and-padding

Comment:
In the last paragraph, please add the word "vertical", since the intent is
apparently that _vertical_ margins at the top or bottom of body, td, or th
elements be collapsed to zero. That's what browsers do in quirks mode. But
horizontal margins are honored.

Posted from: 88.114.29.18
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-06-16 18:27:59 UTC 
EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document:
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Status: Accepted
Change Description: see diff given below
Rationale: Ok, but, how could you possibly have horizontal margins at the top and bottom of elements???
Comment 2 contributor 2011-06-16 18:28:15 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r6243.
Check-in comment: Apparently it isn't entirely clear that margins at the top and bottom of an element must be vertical margins.
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=6242&to=6243
Comment 3 Michael[tm] Smith 2011-08-04 05:05:01 UTC 
mass-moved component to LC1