Posted by dorayme on 12/19/07 21:43

In article <slrnfmj3e8.hlt.spamspam@bowser.marioworld>,
Ben C <spamspam@spam.eggs> wrote:

> On 2007-12-19, dorayme <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> > In article <slrnfmhk5s.fqo.spamspam@bowser.marioworld>,
> > Ben C <spamspam@spam.eggs> wrote:
> >
> >> The purpose of block formatting contexts is floats, they aren't relevant
> >> to anything else that I can see. They might have been named "float
> >> contexts" instead, perhaps less confusingly.
> >
> > OK. So when I am thinking and saying things like containers are
> > normally blind to their floated children, except for some IE
> > family containers (which auto grow height for them), I will be
> > adding that there is an official way to cause parents to see
> > their floated children, namely to trigger a BFC. An author can
> > always specify a height: but this "covering of the children" is
> > mere forcing the blind parent to provide something, it shows no
> > inner awareness (as it were) of the floated children. However, an
> > author giving the container a BFC gives the parent a more inner
> > intelligence, an awareness that can fend for itself, in effect,
> > it covers its floated children all by itself once the author has
> > triggered some genes in it...
> >
> > Just thinking aloud...
>
> That kind of thing, but don't forget that it's descendents, not just
> children. As soon as a container is a BFC it wraps up any floats that
> originate anywhere in the tree of nested containers inside it.
> Furthermore it gets out of the way itself of any nearby floats from
> other BFCs that might otherwise encroach over its borders.

I won't forget. The imagery is forming in my mind. A BFC is one
hell of a parent, possessive, caring, watchful of others... <g>

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dorayme

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