CSS2.1

The CSS2.1 specification is a revision of of CSS2 that corrects many errors and omissions in the CSS2 Recommendation. It has also dropped unimplemented features and introduced a handful of minor new ones.

There is an errata document for CSS2.1.

Current Issues

The following are known problems in the 23 April 2009 CSS2.1 Candidate Recommendation. Once resolved, any resulting changes or corrections will be added to the errata list.

Issue 25

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2007Dec/0167.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jul/0575.html
Summary
Define what effect } has in style attribute syntax.
Resolution
A mismatched close brace in a style attribute is treated as an invalid token. It does not terminate the style attribute's style data.
Status
Open. Needs proposal or spec.

Issue 26

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2007Dec/0252.html
Summary
Does vertical-align affect cell contents or cell's content box?
Testcase
http://dbaron.org/css/test/2007/height-of-cell-box
Testcase
http://www.brunildo.org/test/td_height1.html
Proposal
Proposal in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2007Dec/0252.html and http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2007Dec/0253.html but needs resolution on open question in the latter proposal; see http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jan/0004.html
Status
Open. See proposal notes for needed work. =dbaron=

Issue 53

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jun/0227.html
Summary
Interaction of pre* and justification poorly defined.
Proposal
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jul/0532.html
Status
Open. Needs testcase. =arronei= Make testcase.

Issue 60

Issue 61

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jun/0264.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Sep/0118.html
Summary
percentage table row heights should be undefined, not auto
Proposal
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009Jun/0116.html
Resolution
proposal accepted
Status
Open. =Bert= Edit.

Issue 69

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Aug/0126.html
Summary
fixed background images not defined for paged media
Status
Open. Needs testcase. =arronei=

Issue 71

URL
Summary
@rules in unexpected contexts should parse as @rules.
Resolution
@rules inside declaration blocks are ignored if between declarations (i.e. at the beginning of a declaration before the property), invalid if within declarations.
Status
Open. =Bert= Draft proposed text.

Issue 72

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Sep/0152.html
Summary
extra columns in fixed tables are rendered
Proposal
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Sep/0152.html plus say that column and table widths are undefined when extra cells are present in fixed layout
Resolved
Proposal accepted.
Status
=Bert= Come up with exact wording and edit.

Issue 73

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Sep/0216.html
Summary
URL grammar and comments
Proposal
No change. Comments are not allowed inside url(). Add a note to clarify.
Resolution
Proposal accepted.
Status
Open. =Peter= draft note. =Bert= Edit.

Issue 75

Duplicate of Issue 73

Issue 86

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Nov/0298.html
Summary
Position of list-item marker in presence of floats, text-align
Proposal
Add “The position of the list-item marker in the presence of floats is undefined in CSS2.1.” Ask web-designers about text-align.
Status
Open. =dbaron= Investigate.

Issue 89

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jan/0297.html
Summary
Page breaks should be allowed between last line box and content edge.
Proposal
Copy text from http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-page/#allowed-pg-brk
Resolution
Proposal accepted.
Status
Open. =Bert= Edit.

Issue 101

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009Jan/0445.html
Summary
Float rules when interacting with floats outside containing block
Status
Open. =dbaron= Write more testcases and come up with a proposal.

Issue 107

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009Feb/0378.html
Summary
Clarify relative positioning calculations and whether they affect computed or used values
Status
Open. Needs Testcases. =arronei= Make testcases.

Issue 109

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009Mar/0060.html
Summary
anonymous table objects and table rows
Status
Open. =bzbarsky=

Issue 110

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009Mar/0077.html
Summary
anonymous table objects and white space
Status
Open. =bzbarsky=

Issue 111

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009Mar/0070.html
Summary
synchronize font-weight: bolder/lighter changes with any accepted for css3-fonts
Proposal
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009May/0145.html
Status
Open. =WG= Discuss

Issue 113

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009Mar/0047.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009Mar/0066.html
Summary
add && to list of value syntax operators
Proposal
copy text from http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-background/
Resolved
Add && to list of value syntax operators, with an example
Status
Open. =Bert= Edit.

Issue 114

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009Apr/0325.html
Summary
font-family syntax ambiguous
Proposal
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009Apr/0351.html
Status
Open. Needs testcases. =arronei= Make testcases.

Issue 115

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009Mar/0282.html
Summary
zero clearance needs to be distinguished from zero clearance
Proposal
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009May/0186.html
Status
Open. =WG= Discuss.

Issue 116

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009Mar/0004.html (Issues 1, 2, 6)
Summary
Editorial issues for chapter 9 and 10
Resolution
Issues 1, 2, and 6 assumed editorial.
Status
=Bert= Edit 1, 2, and 6.

Issue 117

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009Mar/0004.html (Issues 4 and 10)
Summary
Vertical alignment underdefined. Testcases in URL.
Status
=WG= Discuss.

Issue 118

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009Mar/0004.html (Issue 7)
Summary
Inline layout inappropriately defines line-height in terms of glyphs
Status
Open. Needs proposal.

Issue 119

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009Mar/0004.html (Issue 8)
Summary
Reference to undefined term “block's baseline”
Proposal
Remove “block's”
Status
Open. =WG= Discuss or propose something better.

Issue 120

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009Mar/0004.html (Issue 8)
Summary
Spec talks about blocks but leaves out table-caption etc.
Proposal
Define table-caption etc. to format their contents exactly like blocks, and remove all explicit lists (and just talk about blocks) elsewhere so we don't keep getting out-of-sync.
Status
Open. =WG= Discuss.

Issue 121

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009Mar/0004.html (Issue 9)
Summary
Rewrite paragraph about lines being exactly 'line-height' to be accurate and precise
Resolution
Assumed editorial.
Status
Open. =Bert= Edit and send to www-style for review.

Issue 122

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009May/0080.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009May/0081.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009May/0082.html
Summary
spec should not define “sans-serif” to mean something different from what it means to font designers
Status
Open. Proposal needed?

Issue 123

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009May/0030.html
Summary
Don't ignore end of block when parsing @rule.
Proposal
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009May/0054.html
Resolution
Bert's first proposal accepted with comma before second “or”.
Status
Open. =Bert= Edit.

Issue 124

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009May/0030.html
Summary
Grammar errors
Proposal
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009May/0054.html
Resolution
Defer to Bert
Status
Open. =Bert= Edit.

Issue 125

Summary
descendants misspelled as descendents in definition of 'hidden' for 'visibility' (section 11.2)
Resolution
Assumed editorial.
Status
Open. =Bert= Edit. (Subsumed by issue 126?)

Issue 126

Summary
spec needs a spell check
URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2009Jun/0054.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2009Jun/0053.html
Resolution
Assumed editorial.
Status
Open. =Bert= Edit.

Issue 127

Summary
table caption figure caption needs updating
URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009May/0173.html
Resolution
Assumed editorial.
Status
Open. =Bert= Edit.

Old Issues

The following are known problems in the 19 July 2007 CSS2.1 Candidate Recommendation. The resulting changes and corrections have been incorporated into the 23 April 2009 CSS2.1 Candidate Recommendation and have also been added to the 19 July 2007 CSS2.1 errata list.

Issue 1

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-css-wg/2007AprJun/0429.html
Summary
What should 'width' on columns and column groups really mean?
Proposal
Add text in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Mar/0182.html to definition in 17.3
Resolution
No change.
Status
Closed.

Issue 2

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2007Jul/0118.html
Summary
Remove DELIM? from declaration definition in 4.1.1. (It was added there to enable vendor extensions, but that's already solved by allowing hyphens at the beginning of an identifier.)
Resolution
Accepted to remove DELIM? from declaration.
Status
Closed.

Issue 3

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2007Jul/0097.html
Summary
@{C}{H}{A}{R}{S}{E}{T} in grammar (G.2) should be reverted to "@charset "
Resolution
Make change.
Status
Closed.

Issue 4

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2007Jul/0097.html
Summary
@charset rule prose in 4.4 requires double-quoted string (immediately followed by semicolon), but grammar allows double- or single-quoted string. Grammar is noted to be more lax than prose, so this may be ok.
Resolution
No change.
Status
Closed.

Issue 5

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2007Jul/0104.html
Summary
Descendant combinator should be represented as S+ in grammar instead of S. (This correction matches grammar in (CSS3) Selectors.)
Resolution
Accepted to use S+.
Status
Closed.

Issue 6

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2007Aug/0174.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-css-wg/2007JulSep/0177.html
Summary
Position of empty blocks in margin collapsing sub-optimal / inconsistent with implementations
Testcase
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008May/0199.html
Proposal
In 8.3.1 bullet 6 subbullet 2, change “non-zero top border” to “non-zero bottom border”.
Resolution
Proposal accepted.
Status
Closed.

Issue 7

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2007Aug/0079.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-css-wg/2007OctDec/0127.html
Summary
Constant page area width allowance poorly specified.
Testcase
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-css-wg/2007OctDec/att-0076/pagemargintest.html
Proposal
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2007Aug/0079.html , possibly appending “This adjustment must not create or increase negative page margins unless the target page area is larger than the page box.”
Resolution
No change.
Status
Closed.

Issue 8

Issue 9

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2007Sep/0087.html
Summary
Remove “slightly” from note about different uses of 'vertical-align' property.
Resolution
Assumed editorial.
Status
Closed.

Issue 10

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2007Sep/0069.html
Summary
Undefined handling of images without intrinsic sizes in backgrounds, content, cursor, and list-style-image.
Proposal
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Mar/0027.html
Resolution
Proposal accepted.
Status
Closed.

Issue 11

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2007Sep/0177.html
Summary
Various typos
Proposal
Fix s/boxess/boxes/ and encoding errors.
Resolution
Assumed editorial.
Status
Closed.

Issue 12

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2007Sep/0101.html
Summary
300×150 px defaults too aggressive
Proposal
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2007Sep/0101.html
Resolution
Proposal accepted.
Status
Closed.

Issue 13

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2007Jul/0124.html
Summary
“tag selector” should be “type selector”
Resolution
Assumed editorial.
Status
Closed.

Issue 14

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2007Oct/0087.html
Summary
margins should be adjoining when min-height == height
Testcase
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jul/0448.html
Proposal
The bottom margin of an in-flow block-level element is adjoining to its last in-flow block-level child's bottom margin when:

* the element's specified 'height' is 'auto',

  • the element's used height is the same as it would have been if the specified values of 'min-height' and 'max-height' were their initial values
  • the element has no bottom padding or border.
Resolution
Proposal accepted.
Status
Closed.

Issue 15

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2007Oct/0174.html
Summary
Clarify that identifiers can start with A-Z
Proposal
Change [a-z0-9] to [a-zA-Z0-9]
Resolution
Assumed editorial.
Status
Closed.

Issue 16

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2007Oct/0201.html
Summary
Specify image pixel mapping to CSS lengths.
Proposal
Append “For raster images without reliable resolution information, a size of 1 px unit per image source pixel must be assumed.” to definition of “intrinsic dimensions”.
Resolution
Proposal accepted.
Status
Closed.

Issue 17

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2007Nov/0059.html
URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008May/0238.html
Summary
Error in stacking context appendix E
Proposal
s/but any descendants which actually create a new stacking context/but any positioned descendants and descendants which actually create a new stacking context/
Resolution
Proposal accepted.
Status
Closed.

Issue 18

URL
http://www.w3.org/mid/op.tv09c9zdp8frts@hasather.net
Summary
s/tag selector/type selector/ in 5.8.
Resolution
Assumed editorial.
Status
Closed.

Issue 19

Issue 20

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2007Dec/0018.html
Summary
Sentence about text-align being used for horizontal alignment in table cells confusing
Testcase
http://www.dhtmlkitchen.com/test/bug/table-alignment.html
Proposal
s/content/inline content/; s/is/can be/
Resolution
Assumed editorial.
Status
Closed.

Issue 21

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2007Dec/0139.html
Summary
Index format inaccessible
Resolution
Assumed editorial.
Status
Open. =Bert= Edit.

Issue 22

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2007Dec/0140.html
Summary
Unclear that “display: none” affects non-visual display.
Proposal
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Mar/0037.html
Resolution
Proposal accepted.
Status
Closed.

Issue 23

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2007Dec/0215.html
Summary
“url(” needs to be {u}{r}{l}”(” in grammar
Resolution
Assumed editorial.
Status
Closed.

Issue 24

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2007Dec/0156.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Mar/0096.html
Summary
Clarify where bracket/quote pairing is required for parsing invalid syntax. (Only in declaration blocks, or also in selectors/media queries/etc?)
Testcase
http://fantasai.inkedblade.net/style/tests/ad-hoc/syntax/matching-brackets-000.xht
Proposal
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008May/0252.html
Proposal 2
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Dec/0091.html
Resolution
Duplicate malformed declarations rule for malformed statements (statements rule to come after declarations rule in the spec).
Status
Closed.

Issue 27

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2007Dec/0188.html
Summary
Clarify interaction of scrollbar and width/height
Testcase
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2007Dec/att-0188/scroll1.htm
Testcase
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jan/att-0089/scroll2.htm
Proposal
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jan/0259.html
Resolution
Spec Firefox 3's behavior for above testcase. Proposal above accepted with two changes: add “the” between “with” and “scrollbars” and change “excluded from” to “taken out of”
Status
Closed.

Issue 28

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jan/0208.html
Summary
Clarify whether mix of comma and space-separated syntax allowed for rect()
Proposal
Add ”(but not a combination)” after “without commas” in <shape> definition.
Resolution
Proposal accepted.
Status
Closed.

Issue 29

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jan/0300.html
Summary
First paragraph of 10.3.8 confusing
Proposal
Replace with “In this case, Section 10.3.7 applies up through and including the constraint equation, but the rest of section 10.3.7 is replaced by the following rules:”
Resolution
Assumed editorial.
Status
Closed.

Issue 30

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jan/0525.html
Summary
Hebrew list-style-type used in example, though not defined in 2.1
Resolution
Assumed editorial.
Status
Closed.

Issue 31

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jan/0541.html
Summary
Are @import rules ignored or honored after invalid but recognized @rules?
Proposal
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Mar/0079.html
Resolution
Proposal accepted.
Status
Closed.

Issue 32

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jan/0544.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Mar/0080.html
Summary
Is '@' not followed by a valid identifier parsed as an invalid at-rule or a generic invalid token?
Proposal
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Aug/0165.html
Resolution
Proposal by dbaron+fantasai accepted.
Status
Closed.

Issue 33

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jan/0568.html
Summary
Distinguish between preferred and used width for intrinsic percentages that can't be resolved, as for non-replaced elements
Proposal
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Feb/0029.html
Resolution
Proposal accepted.
Status
Closed.

Issue 34

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jan/0576.html
Summary
Clarify that 'auto' top and bottom margins are not set to zero for absolutely-positioned replaced elements
Proposal
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Mar/0040.html
Resolution
Proposal accepted.
Status
Closed.

Issue 35

Issue 36

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Feb/0224.html
Summary
'direction' for replacing 'auto' for abspos elements
Testcase
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=302176
Resolution
Proposal accepted.
Status
Closed.

Issue 37

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Mar/0038.html
Summary
”:before, :after { white-space: pre-line; }” should be either made normative or dropped
Proposal
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Mar/0070.html as modified by http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Mar/0074.html
Resolution
Proposal accepted.
Status
Closed.

Issue 38

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Mar/0166.html
Summary
CSS2.1 and CSS3 attribute selector definitions incompatible
Proposal
Adopt CSS3 Selectors wording
Resolved
Proposal accepted
Status
Closed.

Issue 39

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Apr/0516.html
Summary
Canvas background bounds need clarification for paged media
Proposal
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Apr/0516.html
Resolution
Proposal accepted.
Status
Closed.

Issue 40

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Feb/0283.html
Summary
Missing “tr{vertical-align:inherit}” in Appendix D
Proposal
Add tr {vertical-align:inherit} to Appendix D
Resolution
Proposal accepted.
Status
Closed.

Issue 41

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Mar/0296.html
Summary
Pixel values should be normatively related to device pixels
Proposal
Add “It is recommended that the pixel unit refer to the whole number of device pixels that best approximates the reference pixel.” to px definition
Resolution
Proposal accepted.
Status
Closed.

Issue 42

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jun/0065.html
Summary
Static position should also assume “clear: none”.
Testcase
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=308701
Proposal
Add “and 'clear' had been 'none'” to “and 'float' had been 'none'” sentence in 10.6.4.
Resolution
Proposal accepted.
Status
Closed.

Issue 43

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Apr/0197.html
Summary
Remove or edit containing block notes for top/left/bottom/right props.
Resolution
Assumed editorial.
Status
Closed.

Issue 44

URL
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/Tracker/issues/35
Summary
page-break-inside should not inherit
Proposal
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Apr/0018.html
Resolution
Proposal accepted.
Status
Closed.

Issue 45

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jun/0027.html
Summary
Need clarification on allowed guesses for static position?
Proposal
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jun/0177.html
Resolution
Proposal accepted with “this” replaced by “this hypothetical calculation”
Status
Closed.

Issue 46

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jun/0105.html
Summary
Clarify how media queries qualify style rules
Proposal
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jun/0106.html
Resolution
Proposal accepted proposal plus adding “The import only takes effect if the target medium matches the media list.” to last paragraph in 6.3
Status
Closed.

Issue 47

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jun/0136.html
Summary
HTML+CSS Grand Unified Theory of Whitespace
Resolution
No change.
Status
Closed.

Issue 48

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jun/0147.html
Summary
Remove outdated bolder/lighter text from font-weight defs
Proposal
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jun/0147.html
Resolution
Proposal accepted.
Status
Closed.

Issue 49

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jun/0151.html
Summary
Clarify computed value of font-weight wrt bolder/lighter
Proposal
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Aug/0167.html with s/will more/will be more/
Resolution
Proposal accepted.
Status
Closed.

Issue 50

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jun/0183.html
Summary
Add note from width def about padding box containing block for percentages to height definition.
Resolved
Assumed editorial.
Status
Closed.

Issue 51

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jun/0297.html
Summary
Core grammar for @rules conflicts with CSS3 features
Status
See Issue 61.

Issue 52

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jun/0195.html
Summary
Should page-break-* apply to <BR> ?
Resolution
page-break-* applies to block-level elements and MAY apply to “other elements”
Status
Closed.

Issue 54

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jun/0349.html
Summary
Specify left/right as being position for ltr/rtl list markers
Proposal
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jun/0349.html
Resolved
Accept proposal with s/elements/list items/
Status
Closed.

Issue 55

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008May/0269.html
Summary
Error in O macro in grammar
Proposal
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008May/0269.html
Resolution
Assumed obvious.
Status
Closed.

Issue 56

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Apr/0460.html
Summary
Should text-decoration propagate through internal table elements?
Proposal
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jul/0450.html
Status
Open. Needs better proposal.

Issue 57

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Mar/0184.html
Summary
Typo in identifier character range
Proposal
Change A0 into 80.
Status
Open. Needs testcase.

Issue 58

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Mar/0192.html
Summary
Spec contradictory on whether markers inside principal box or not
Proposal
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jul/0451.html
Resolution
Proposal accepted.
Status
Closed.

Issue 59

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Apr/0091.html
Summary
Clarify behavior of outside marker when list-item overflow != visible
Proposal
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jul/0454.html
Resolution
Proposal accepted.
Status
Closed.

Issue 60a

URL
http://dev.moonhenge.net/css21/spec/z-index/
Summary
Z-index and stacking behavior prose needs revision
Proposal
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Oct/0238.html and http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Oct/0240.html
Resolution 1
(1) in section 9.5, change “float's parent's stacking context” to “float's parent stacking context” and (2) in section 9.9.1, add “non-positioned” to items 3, 4, and 5 in the 7-point list
Status
Closed.

Issue 62

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jun/0245.html
Summary
Grammar for @media versus general block parsing
Proposal
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Aug/0168.html
Resolution
Proposal accepted.
Status
Closed.

Issue 63

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008May/0265.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-css-wg/2008AprJun/0303.html
Summary
Processing Model should be informative
Proposal
Make Section 2.3 (but not its subsections) informative, remove last three sentences about scope.
Resolution
Proposal accepted.
Status
Closed.

Issue 64

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Mar/0192.html
Summary
Marker box may affect height of principal block box.
Proposal
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jul/0453.html
Resolution
Add to definition for outside “The size or contents of the marker box may affect the height of the principal block box and/or the height of its first line box, and in some cases may cause the creation of a new line box. Note: This interaction may be more precisely defined in a future level of CSS.”
Status
Closed.

Issue 65

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jul/0522.html
Summary
Section 9.2.2 says: “Several values of the 'display' property make an element inline: 'inline', 'inline-table', and 'run-in' (part of the time; see run-in boxes).” Seems to be missing 'inline-block'.
Proposal
Add inline-block
Resolution
Proposal accepted.
Status
Closed.

Issue 66

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jul/0473.html
Summary
Prose and token definition disagree on whether escapes may occur in comments
Proposal
In 4.1.3 prepend “Except within CSS comments” to the sentence “Any character (except a hexadecimal digit) can be escaped with a backslash to remove its special meaning.”
Resolution
Accepted proposal to update prose to match tokenization.
Status
Closed.

Issue 67

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jul/0477.html
Summary
Margin collapsing not disabled between fixed-height block and last child
Status
Retracted.

Issue 68

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jul/0114.html
Summary
Case-sensitivity of :lang() and [xml|lang|=]
Testcase
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2008Jul/att-0026/xmllang.xhtml
Proposal
Copy wording from http://dev.w3.org/csswg/selectors3/#lang-pseudo
Resolution
Proposal accepted.
Status
Closed.

Issue 70

URL
Summary
Bullet points in 8.3.1 about 'overflow' not 'visible' should mention that block formatting contexts, in general, do not collapse margins with their children.
Proposal
In 8.3.1 change “Vertical margins of elements with 'overflow' other than 'visible'” to “Vertical margins of elements that establish new block formatting contexts (such as floats and elements with 'overflow' other than 'visible')”
Resolution
Proposal accepted.
Status
Closed.

Issue 74

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Sep/0228.html
Summary
Remove text about avoiding page breaks within floats, tables, and blocks with borders
Proposal
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Sep/0228.html
Resolution
Proposal accepted, plus add “Avoid breaking inside a replaced element.”
Status
Closed.

Issue 76

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Sep/0229.html
Summary
Clarify rules wrt content outside the page box
Proposal
When formatting content in the page model, some content may end up outside the *current* page box. For example, an element whose 'white-space' property has the value 'pre' may generate a box that is wider than the page box. *As another example,* when boxes are positioned absolutely *or relatively*, they may end up in “inconvenient” locations. For example, images may be placed on the edge of the page box or 100,000 meters below the page box.
Resolution
Proposal accepted.
Status
Closed.

Issue 77

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Sep/0233.html
Summary
Printing of fixed position boxes in Paged Media
Proposal
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Sep/0233.html plus change last sentence to “Parts of the fixed position box that are not visible in the initial containing block will not print.”
Resolution
Proposal accepted.
Status
Closed.

Issue 78

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2007Oct/0150.html
Summary
:before / :after description implies that :before:first-line is valid
Proposal
Replace “combined with” with “applied to an element having content generated using” and “including the inserted text” with “including the generated content”.
Resolution
Assumed editorial.
Status
Closed.

Issue 79

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Sep/0112.html
Summary
margin-collapsing with min-height
Proposal
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Nov/0297.html
Resolution
Proposal accepted (telcon 2008-12-10)
Status
Closed.

Issue 80

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2007Mar/0035.html
Summary
Treat XHTML body as magic like HTML body
Proposal
http://www.w3.org/Style/css2-updates/issues-4-20061106.html#issue-31
Resolution
Accepted proposed text for body magic from issues-4
Status
Closed.

Issue 81

URL
http://www.w3.org/blog/CSS/2008/04/04/resolutions_18
Summary
Clarify that [attr~=””] matches nothing
Resolution
http://www.w3.org/blog/CSS/2008/04/04/resolutions_18
Status
Closed.

Issue 82

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Sep/0197.html
Summary
Case of 'u' in UNICODE-RANGE token
Resolution
Assumed editorial.
Status
Closed.

Issue 83

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Sep/0197.html
Summary
Core syntax for UNICODE-RANGE token too lenient
Resolved
No change.
Status
Closed.

Issue 84

Issue 85

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Nov/0039.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Nov/0078.html
Summary
Spec conflict wrt handling of backslash followed by newline in ident
Proposal
Change “except a hexadecimal digit” to “except a hexadecimal digit or a newline (\n, \r, or \f)”.
Status
Closed.

Issue 87

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Nov/0494.html
Summary
Comments allowed at beginning / end of style sheet?
Proposal
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Nov/0542.html
Resolution
Proposal accepted (telcon 2008-12-10)
Status
Closed.

Issue 88

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Nov/0483
Summary
Is anonymous outer table box a block-formatting context?
Proposal
Anonymous outer table box behaves as a block formatting context except that the top margin of a top caption / bottom margin of a bottom caption collapses with the top / bottom table margin. Proposed text in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Nov/0520.html
Resolution
Option 1 accepted (telcon 2008-12-10)
Status
Closed.

Issue 90

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Dec/0055.html
Summary
Update vendor prefix table
Resolution
Assumed editorial.
Status
Closed.

Issue 91

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Dec/0070.html
Summary
Spec unclear about whether line break opportunities found before or after white space collapsing
Proposal
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Dec/0075.html
Resolution
Proposal accepted.
Status
Closed.

Issue 92

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Dec/0008.html
Summary
Use more precise wording to describe widows and orphans.
Proposal
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Dec/0008.html
Resolution
Proposal accepted.
Status
Closed.

Issue 93

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Dec/0007.html
Summary
Initial containing block definition poorly worded and confusing
Proposal
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Dec/0007.html
Resolution
Assumed editorial.
Status
Closed.

Issue 94

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Dec/0156.html
Summary
'none' creates ambiguity parsing 'list-style' shorthand
Proposal
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009Jan/0255.html
Resolution
Proposal accepted.
Status
Closed.

Issue 95

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Nov/0475.html
Summary
Sections 13.2.1.1 and 13.2.1.2 describe an impossible (in 2.1) case
Proposal
Remove sections 13.2.1.1 and 13.2.1.2
Resolution
Proposal accepted.
Status
Closed.

Issue 96

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Oct/0260.html
Summary
Rule D mentions all ancestors but forgets the element itself
Proposal
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Oct/0260.html
Resolution
Assumed obvious.
Status
Closed.

Issue 97

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009Jan/0024.html
Summary
Add example of negative clearance to negative clearance note
Resolution
Assumed editorial.
Status
Closed.

Issue 98

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009Jan/0087.html
Summary
Allow preserving top margin after a forced page break
Proposal
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009Jan/0195.html
Resolution
Proposal accepted.
Status
Closed.

Issue 99

URL
http://www.w3.org/mid/495A4E7E.10305@gmail.com
Summary
Appendix G says: 'The two occurrences of “\377”…' but there is only one.
Proposal
Change this sentence and the next to singular.
Resolution
Assumed editorial
Status
Closed.

Issue 100

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009Jan/0448.html
Summary
Background propagation rules imply only background-image and background-color are propagated.
Proposal
Use wording from http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-background/#special-backgrounds
Proposal
s/those/the background properties/
Status
Closed.

Issue 102

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009Feb/0126.html
Summary
Parsing of @import after garbage
Proposal
Only ignore @import if it follows a {non-@}-rule or a known @-rule that it is not allowed to follow.
Resolution
Replace “valid statement” with “non-ignored statement” in section 4.1.5
Status
Closed.

Issue 103

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009Jan/0494.html
Summary
Fix error in calculation of auto values for 'left' and 'right'
Resolution
Fix error, exact edits to be decided by Bert Bos.
Status
Closed.

Issue 104

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009Feb/0538.html
Summary
Various CSS2.1 Grammar Issues
Proposal
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009Feb/0619.html
Resolution
Proposal accepted.
Status
Closed.

Issue 105

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009Jan/0234.html
Summary
widows and orphans should specify that zero and negative values are not allowed.
Resolution
widows and orphans can only accept integers >= 1
Status
Closed.

Issue 106

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Jul/0589.html
Summary
Parsing Garbage.
Status
Closed. (Solved by edits for Issue 24.)

Issue 108

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009Mar/0133.html
Summary
counter-increment: none not defined
Proposal
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009Mar/0194.html
Resolution
Option 1 accepted.
Status
Closed.

Issue 112

URL
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009Apr/0099.html (contains proposal)
Summary
clarify which element's text-align property applies to cells
Status
Closed.
 
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