What I don't understand is why there is collapsing margins at all.  What is the 
rationale?

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>From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]
>discuss.org] On Behalf Of Philippe Wittenbergh
>Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 4:51 AM
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>Cc: Philip TAYLOR
>Subject: Re: [css-d] odd space appearing in IE8
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>Le 9 août 2012 à 20:06, Philip TAYLOR a écrit :
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>> But what for behaviour does the specification call, Philippe, in your
>> opinion ?
>
>Back in time - somewhere in 2007 or so - when we first discussed and
>investigated this, the Gecko behavior was correct. But the spec text was
>different. Since then, the CSS WG discussed that issue and modified the spec
>text (quoted below); see the links provided by Alan. But I find the text much
>more ambiguous than it was then. The behavior as shown by WebKit, Presto,
>Trident is much more intuitive, although - I think - not correct by the spec.
>
>Obviously, all 3 implementations haven't found it necessary to modify their
>behavior (4years later.)
>
>see http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/box.html#collapsing-margins
>> A box's own margins collapse if the 'min-height' property is zero, and it has
>neither top or bottom borders nor top or bottom padding, and it has a
>'height' of either 0 or 'auto', and it does not contain a line box, and all of 
>its
>in-flow children's margins (if any) collapse.
>
>BTW - I updated my test case with some more examples that illustrates the
>ambiguous behaviour.
>http://dev.l-c-n.com/_temp/min-height_margin-b.html
>
>Philippe
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>http://l-c-n.com
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