Open Bug 364423 Opened 18 years ago Updated 2 years ago

stop treating floating first letter frames as floats

Categories

(Core :: Layout: Block and Inline, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
Layout: Block and Inline
Type:
defect

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People

(Reporter: dbaron, Unassigned)

Details

(Keywords: css1, css3) 

We should stop treating floating ::first-letter frames as floats using our standard float code.  I think the designers of CSS (in this case, Håkon Lie) intended floating first-letter to be "like a float" but not "exactly a float".

We should:
 * make floating :first-letter participate in inline layout
 * use the bounding metrics of the glyph(s) to size the frame
 * give it a special hard-coded 'vertical-align' (probably roughly 'text-top')
 * make it not participate in line-height calculations
 * mark the space as occupied in the space manager
Severity: normal → S3
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