Ah yes, that makes sense. Thanks a lot Vincent. I didn't think about that. On 21.02.2005 21:54:19 Vincent Hennebert wrote: > Jeremias Maerki a écrit : > > Am I right that for a table-cell in collapsing border model the > > conditional part of a <length-conditional> (ex. in border-before-width) > > has no effect (i.e. is ignored)? > > > I would answer no, actually not exactly. > If I understand the spec correctly, the conditional part has an effect only > if > the generated area "begins" an ancestor reference area. > Let's take the example of border-before. If there is a cell before the > current > cell we don't care about the conditionality: we just have to chose between > this > border, the border-after of the preceding cell, and the border-after and > border-before of the containing table-rows. > Now if the table has to be broken at the end of a page and the current cell > begins a new page (and no border is specified for the table-row), in this > case > the conditionality has to be taken in consideration. Because the cell would > be a > leading edge in the normal-flow-reference-area of the page, as defined at the > end of section 4.2.5, Stacking Constraints. > > Does it answer your question? I may have missed something, I have not > carefully > studied this aspect of the spec nor the border-collapsing model. > > Hope this helps, > Vincent
Jeremias Maerki
