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Bug 15778 - Clarify that content area height of inline box doesn't depend on its descendant boxes
Summary: Clarify that content area height of inline box doesn't depend on its descenda...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
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
QA Contact: public-css-bugzilla
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Reported: 2012-01-29 18:30 UTC by Anton P
Modified: 2012-12-04 00:53 UTC (History)
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Description Anton P 2012-01-29 18:30:53 UTC 
Reported by Anton Prowse

10.6.1 (height of inline, non-replaced elements) says:

   # The height of the content area should be based on the font, but this
   # specification does not specify how.

For added emphasis, I'd like to see a note in 10.6.1 that the content area height of an inline box doesn't depend on its descendant boxes (neither in terms of their glyphs, font or line-height).  This is a potential gotcha.

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Bug description:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2010Jul/0535.html (Issue 19)

Acknowledgement: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2010Aug/0010.html