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CSS3 Positioning

This page contains the issues that are not yet listed in the specification and the resolutions for issues that were in the spec. but got resolved.

Action Items

Issues

Issue 1:

Changing the positioning edge. Or changing the containing block.

There are issues with circular references. Need a way to handle this.

Original proposal: http://www.xanthir.com/blog/b48H0

Posponed discussion until TPAC

Issue 2:

Vertical centering using position.

Proposal from Tantek and Ian: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-css-wg/2002JulSep/0296.html

Resolved: Proposal modified and added

Issue 3:

Need to add in logic to all the positioning logic to account for vertical layouts.

Issue 4:

z-index needs to account for CSS3-floats

Resolved: Handled in CSS Exclusions and Shapes

Issue 5:

The CSS3 Positioning module needs a section that explains exactly how *static position* is computed. As part of this definition the following should be added: “The static position of any CSS 2.1 absolutely positioned element or exclusion element is determined without taking into consideration the wrapping context.”