Deviation margin-left and margin-right from CSS
Werner Donné <[email protected]>
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Hi, The margin-left and margin-right properties are taken over from CSS. However, they don't completely behave as in CSS. More specifically the value "auto" is treated differently. Section 5.1.2 states that for auto values the formulas must be applied. In this case it would be the last two formulas of section 5.3.2. As a consequence, it is the same as if margin-left or margin-right were absent. The auto value is not treated as an explicit value. In my opinion it should be and it should be computed according to the CSS rules, from which the properties are taken over, even if that implies an exception to the indentation rules. I see no point in being only partially compatible with CSS properties. A practical consequence, for example, is that a fixed-width block which is stacked in another block can't be centered through setting the margin-left and margin-right properties to "auto", such as it is the case in CSS. The same goes for aligning the stacked block to the left or right. Regards, Werner. -- Werner Donné -- Re BVBA Engelbeekstraat 8 B-3300 Tienen tel: (+32) 486 425803 e-mail: [email protected]