[css-d] Does anyone recognize this ?

2012-10-17 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
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.

Re: [css-d] Does anyone recognize this ?

2012-10-17 Thread Ben Henick
On 10/17/12 7:27 AM, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: E { display: inline-block; float: left; /* .. more .. */ } [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#dis-pos-flo I'm a bit at sea too... I smell a poor understanding of document flow. Assuming that those rules have width values

Re: [css-d] Does anyone recognize this ?

2012-10-17 Thread Eric A. Meyer
At 21:27 +0900 10/17/12, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: 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

Re: [css-d] Does anyone recognize this ?

2012-10-17 Thread Brian Kardell
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;

Re: [css-d] Does anyone recognize this ?

2012-10-17 Thread Brian Kardell
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 .. */ }

Re: [css-d] Does anyone recognize this ?

2012-10-17 Thread Susanne Jäger
Philippe Wittenbergh 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

Re: [css-d] Does anyone recognize this ?

2012-10-17 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
Le 17 oct. 2012 à 21:27, Philippe Wittenbergh e...@l-c-n.com a écrit : 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