17138 2012-05-21 13:10:58 +0000 Stricter use of box terminology throughout in spec (follow-up to Issue 120, inc Issue 266) 2012-12-04 00:54:12 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified CSS CSS Level 2 unspecified PC Windows 3.1 NEW P2 normal --- 1 antonsforums bert public-css-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 67963 0 antonsforums 2012-05-21 13:10:58 +0000 This is a follow-up to Issue 120 (http://wiki.csswg.org/spec/css2.1#issue-120) consisting of Issue 266 together with other associated change proposals. 67964 1 antonsforums 2012-05-21 13:13:36 +0000 Reported by Anton Prowse Need to tighten up the use of box terminology throughout the spec, in response to the terminology changes made in Issue 120. The changes are described in Issue 266: Issue 266: http://wiki.csswg.org/spec/css2.1#issue-266 Summary Issue 120 follow-up URL http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Jan/0079.html Proposal : * Accept proposals 1 & 2 with "block container element" instead of "block container" accept 3 accept 4 accept 5 with s/which/that/ accept 7 (but beware second set of edits applies to second quoted sentence, not first) Resolution Accept issue 6 edits, push rest to errata. Status Closed. =errata= 67965 2 antonsforums 2012-05-21 13:14:53 +0000 Reported by Kang-Hao (Kenny) Lu 9.5.1 ('float') says: # left # # The element generates a block box that is floated to the left. # Content flows on the right side of the box, starting at the top # (subject to the 'clear' property). s/block/block-level/ Conversation begins: Bug description: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Mar/0351.html 71959 3 antonsforums 2012-08-09 06:59:45 +0000 11.1.1 (Overflow: the 'overflow' property) says: # visible # This value indicates that content is not clipped, i.e., it may be # rendered outside the block box. s/block/element's/ since the box is not necessarily a block box (nor even a block container box; see Bug 15381), and the phrase "element's box" is used elsewhere in this section. 71960 4 antonsforums 2012-08-09 07:01:47 +0000 17.4 (Tables in the visual formatting model) says: # In terms of the visual formatting model, a table can behave like a # block-level (for 'display: table') or inline-level (for # 'display: inline-table') element. # # In both cases, the table generates a principal block box called the table # wrapper box s/block box/block container box/ since the box is not necessarily block-level, as described in the first quoted paragraph.