Hi, Manuel Mall a écrit : > On Tuesday 20 March 2007 04:10, Andreas L Delmelle wrote: <snip/> >> A fix for the left-percentage is setting the PercentBase on the >> PropertyMaker for "left" to LengthBase.CONTAINING_BLOCK_WIDTH in >> FOPropertyMapping.createAbsolutePositionProperties(). >> Although I'm not sure whether that is completely correct. Should the >> 16% be relative to the outer block-container, or to the page (since >> the inner block-containers' positions are also absolute)?
To the outer block-container, which generates a ref-area. That would be relative to the page if the value of "absolute-position" were "fixed". If I'm correct... However, the following statement in §7.6.5 of the XSL-FO rec is a bit unclear: "The left, right, top, and bottom are interpreted in the prevailing coordinate system (established by the nearest ancestor reference area) and not relative to the "containing block" as in CSS." Does that apply only to the edge from which the block should be shifted, or also to the length? It seems you chose the nearest ref-area in your patch, but I can't have a definite opinion towards one or the other possibility. >> Anyway, for the top-percentage, setting the percent-base still >> doesn't seem to be enough, although it fixes the issue described >> above. The parsed property is no longer a FixedLength. >> >> I'll see if I can track that last one down as well. >> > > My understanding of the spec is that for "top" and "bottom" percentages > only make sense if the containing block has a fixed height. If the > containing block has a variable height percentages are suppose to be > ignored and the property value assumed to be "auto". I second that, see the CSS2 spec [1]: "For 'top' and 'bottom', if the height of the containing block is not specified explicitly (i.e., it depends on content height), the percentage value is interpreted like 'auto'." [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-CSS2-19980512/visuren.html#position-props Vincent
