On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Boris Zbarsky wrote: >> >> # In paged media, an absolutely positioned element is positioned relative >> # to its containing block ignoring any page breaks (as if the document >> # were continuous). The element may subsequently be broken over several >> # pages. >> -- http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visudet.html#containing-block-details > > That's nice. What's the containing block in this case, though? The > spec very carefully does not say. It goes to great trouble to say that > it's UA-dependent, in fact.
The initial containing block has to be up to the user agent. That's like saying the name of the Web browser is undefined. Well duh. For Mozilla, the initial containing block should be a block with the width of the viewport and height:auto, I believe. -- Ian Hickson )\._.,--....,'``. fL U+1047E /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. http://index.hixie.ch/ `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' _______________________________________________ mozilla-layout mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mozilla-layout
