Brian Kardell :: @bkardell :: hitchjs.com
On Oct 17, 2012 8:28 AM, "Philippe Wittenbergh" <e...@l-c-n.com> wrote:
>
> In a stylesheet that I’ve temporarily inherited I see multiple times the
> following code (and the stylesheet is otherwise reasonably well written):
>
> E {
> display: inline-block;
> float: left;
> /* .. more .. */
> }
>
> Afaict, those are all applied to inline elements, no width is specified.
> On the face of it, that code is completely non-sensical (float will make
> the element display: block anyway – CSS 2.1:9.7 [1]).
>
> The question: does anyone recognizes this as some kind of hack for
> whatever browser ? I wouldn’t know what the benefit is, though.
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#dis-pos-flo
>
>
> Philippe
> --
> Philippe Wittenbergh
> http://l-c-n.com
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