Re: [css-d] [+] Re: Clearing a float
Hi Philippe, I don't think inherit is a proper value for clear. it is: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#flow-control I had checked CSS pocket reference (Eric Meyer/O'Reilly) and it says in there that inherit is not. I have a more recent version of this great little book, but for some reason I can't find it. I'd be curious to know if this has changed in the newer edition. It's interesting though. This new value came in now that authors use clear even less than before as they now contain floats more than they clear them. Thanks for the heads up. -- Regards, Thierry www.tjkdesign.com | www.ez-css.org | @thierrykoblentz __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
Re: [css-d] [+] Re: Clearing a float
I don't think inherit is a proper value for clear. it is: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#flow-control It's interesting though. This new value came in now that authors use clear even less than before as they now contain floats more than they clear them. Does it do anything though? If you clear the parent left, and then the children inherit it, isn't the behavior the same as if they don't have clear set at all? Since the parent is already below all the floats, the child would also be below all the floats and clear would be redundant... Or is there some example for this that I'm just not seeing? ---Tim __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
Re: [css-d] [+] Re: Clearing a float
I don't think inherit is a proper value for clear. it is: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#flow-control It's interesting though. This new value came in now that authors use clear even less than before as they now contain floats more than they clear them. Does it do anything though? If you clear the parent left, and then the children inherit it, isn't the behavior the same as if they don't have clear set at all? Since the parent is already below all the floats, the child would also be below all the floats and clear would be redundant... For example the parent could clear some float (siblings) while the child would clear nested ones. I never really thought about it though since this inherit value is new to me. I guess there are some edge cases where this could be handy, but I'm not sure... -- Regards, Thierry www.tjkdesign.com | www.ez-css.org | @thierrykoblentz __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
Re: [css-d] [+] Re: Clearing a float
At 7:54 AM -0700 10/5/10, Thierry Koblentz wrote: I don't think inherit is a proper value for clear. it is: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#flow-control I had checked CSS pocket reference (Eric Meyer/O'Reilly) and it says in there that inherit is not. I have a more recent version of this great little book, but for some reason I can't find it. I'd be curious to know if this has changed in the newer edition. No, it appears to be omitted from the third edition as well. I wonder whether I simply missed it or if 'inherit' wasn't officially a 'clear' value when the 3ed. came out in 2007. Either way, I'll do my best to make sure I correct that in the fourth edition. -- Eric A. Meyer (http://meyerweb.com/eric/), List Chaperone CSS is much too interesting and elegant to be not taken seriously. -- Martina Kosloff (http://mako4css.com/) __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
Re: [css-d] [+] Re: Clearing a float
On Oct 6, 2010, at 6:11 AM, Eric A. Meyer wrote: I don't think inherit is a proper value for clear. it is: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#flow-control I had checked CSS pocket reference (Eric Meyer/O'Reilly) and it says in there that inherit is not. I have a more recent version of this great little book, but for some reason I can't find it. I'd be curious to know if this has changed in the newer edition. No, it appears to be omitted from the third edition as well. I wonder whether I simply missed it or if 'inherit' wasn't officially a 'clear' value when the 3ed. came out in 2007. Either way, I'll do my best to make sure I correct that in the fourth edition. 'inherit' was already mentioned in the CSS 2.0 text: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/visuren.html#propdef-clear I guess that makes it official :-) (I'm not sure how useful this is, though, never really thought about it. Perhaps I should blame IE, again, with its general lack of support for the inherit keyword) Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh http://l-c-n.com/ __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
Re: [css-d] [+] Re: Clearing a float
On Oct 6, 2010, at 8:00 AM, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: 'inherit' was already mentioned in the CSS 2.0 text: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/visuren.html#propdef-clear oops, sorry. wrong url there. this is one is correct http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-CSS2-20080411/visuren.html#flow-control Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh http://l-c-n.com/ __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
