1140825 - Can I display mathml block in an inline?

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: MathML, defect)

Description

[Ng Chin Keong]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/36.0
Build ID: 20150305021524

Steps to reproduce:

I try to use display: inline-block in mathml. Is there a way to do that in mathml specification?


Actual results:

It was display as inline


Expected results:

the block of mathml should be in a line, something like display: inline-block for other elements of html5

Comment 1

[Andre Klapper]

Is this a specific problem about Firefox? Does it work in other browsers?
If it does, can you please provide the code for a minimal testcase here?

Comment 2

[Ng Chin Keong]

The problem only exist in firefox, since other browsers don't support mathml natively.

The thing is, when I use inline display and block display, I will get different result for a algebraic fraction. the one using block display is larger, which I think is better and easier to read. The one displayed using inline is too tiny.

But when I display it in block, it couldn't inserted in a line.

Is there a way that I can get the display effect of block display (which is bigger compare to inline display) in a line?

I tried inline-block, but it displays it inline, but the result of the mathml is not the one I got from using block.

Comment 3

[Andre Klapper]

Can you please provide the code for a minimal testcase here?

Comment 4

[Ng Chin Keong]

Attachment: html file to show the problem

Comment 5

[Frédéric Wang (:fredw)]

"inline-block" does not exist in MathML. What you probably want is <math displaystyle="true">...</math> instead.

Comment 6

[Ng Chin Keong]

(In reply to Frédéric Wang (:fredw) from comment #5)
> "inline-block" does not exist in MathML. What you probably want is <math
> displaystyle="true">...</math> instead.

This works for a single line mathml element, but it seems that it doesn't work for contents in mtable. (I use mtable to align the equal sign for a block of working steps of mathematics question, since malign is not yet implemented)

Comment 7

[Frédéric Wang (:fredw)]

mtable (and other elements) resets displaystyle to false (this is not documented on https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/MathML/Element/mtable though). So you need to do

<mtable displaystyle="true">...</mtable>

Comment 8

[Florian Scholz (Open Web Docs)]

I added a note to https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/MathML/Element/mtable