the term "ancestor box" from Bert Bos on 2010-08-22 (www-style@w3.org from August 2010) (original) (raw)

This is proposed text for issue 142[1]. Section 10.1 uses the term "ancestor box," by which it means the "box of an ancestor element." But apparently the term causes confusion. That is probably because in some cases and in some implementations the boxes form a tree. (CSS doesn't say that the boxes form a tree, only that each box is associated with an element and the elements form a tree.)

So here is a rewrite to avoid the term. The following all occur in section 10.1:

• Replace the first occurrence of "ancestor box" by "ancestor element".

• Replace the occurrence of "ancestor boxes" (in the example) by "ancestor elements".

• Replace the phrase "the nearest positioned ancestor box" (at the end of the example) by "the padding edge of the nearest positioned ancestor".

[1] http://wiki.csswg.org/spec/css2.1#issue-142

Bert

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