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Bug 15737 - Description of box model properties refers to width of (e.g.) margin area instead of margin piece
Summary: Description of box model properties refers to width of (e.g.) margin area ins...
Status: NEW
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Product: CSS
Classification: Unclassified
Component: CSS Level 2 (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All Windows 3.1
: P2 normal
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Assignee: Bert Bos
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Reported: 2012-01-27 14:12 UTC by Anton P
Modified: 2012-12-04 00:51 UTC (History)
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Description Anton P 2012-01-27 14:12:56 UTC 
Reported by Anton Prowse

This is part of Issue 262: http://wiki.csswg.org/spec/css2.1#issue-262

8.3 (Margin properties) says:
  # Margin properties specify the width of the margin area of a box.

8.4 (Padding properties) says:
  # The padding properties specify the width of the padding area of
  # a box

8.5 (Border properties) says:
  # The border properties specify the width [...] of the border area
  # of a box

8.5.1 (Border width) says:
  # The border width properties specify the width of the border area.

But none of these really mean "width of the X area".  Rather, they mean "width of the pieces of X", since that's what 8.3 is talking about all the way through (eg in the specification of what <length> values mean).  It's most definitely /not/ talking about the actual X area width, which is a different thing 
entirely.

Note that the first paragraph of 8.1 uses the term "pieces of margin".  I'm not enamoured with this term, but we should employ this or some similar term to rewrite the quoted sentences above.

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Bug description:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Jan/0076.html (Issue 2)



Issue 262: http://wiki.csswg.org/spec/css2.1#issue-262

Summary
    Editorial issues in Ch 8
URL
    http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Jan/0076.html
Proposal
    Accept issue 1 proposed text, fix problem in issue 2 somehow, don't understand why 3 is an issue so no change
Resolution
    Assumed editorial.
Status
    Open. =errata= Deferred to Errata