[csswg-drafts] [css-multicol] Text describing column boxes as block container boxes

rachelandrew has just created a new issue for https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts:

== [css-multicol] Text describing column boxes as block container boxes ==
On 1 Dec 2011, Anton Prowse raised [a bunch of issues with the Multicol CR](https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Dec/0058.html). One of which was:

> Section 2 (The multi-column model) says:
> # Column boxes act as the containing block for their content.
> Various specs use similar wording, but it's always clumsy.  Obviously  they only act as the containing block for descendants for whom they are  the containing block.  We could say something like "Column boxes  participate in the tree of containing blocks", but there's currently no such concept described anywhere (despite existing conceptually), so  instead I suggest we just say:
> Column boxes are block container boxes.
> Then the fact that they form part of the tree of containing blocks falls  out naturally and doesn't need explicitly stating.

There was a [minor edit made to the spec](https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Jan/0392.html) - email 9 Jan 2012. This seems to be the current wording.

Issue was returned to [15 April 2013](https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Apr/0338.html) with a suggestion that the wording be revised again, as far as I can see that didn't happen and I'm posting this to see if anyone has an opinion on the matter now.

_This is one of a list of legacy issues I'm digging out of the www-style archives._


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