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CSS Exclusions define arbitrary areas around which inline content ([CSS21]) content can flow. CSS Exclusions can be defined on any CSS block-level elements. CSS Exclusions extend the notion of content wrapping previously limited to floats.
CSS Shapes control the geometric shapes used for wrapping inline flow content outside or inside an element. CSS Shapes can be applied to any element. A circle shape on a float will cause inline content to wrap around the circle shape instead of the float's bounding box.
Combining CSS Exclusions and CSS Shapes allows sophisticated layouts, allowing interactions between shapes in complex positioning schemes.
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This section is not normative.
The exclusions section of this specification defines features that allow inline flow content to wrap around outside the exclusion area of elements.
The shapes section of the specification defines properties to control the geometry of an element's exclusion area as well as the geometry used for wrapping an element's inline flow content.
Exclusion box
A box ([CSS3BOX]) that defines an exclusion area for other boxes. The ‘wrap-flow
’
property is used to make an element's generated box an exclusion box. An
exclusion box contributes its exclusion area
to its
containing block's wrapping context.
An element with a ‘float
’ computed
value other than ‘none
’ does not
become an exclusion.
Exclusion area
Interaction of floats and exclusions (Howcome's questions)
The area used for excluding inline flow content around an exclusion
element. The exclusion area is equivalent to the border box.
This specification's ‘shape-outside
’ property can be used to
define arbitrary, non-rectangular exclusion areas.
Float area
The area used for excluding inline flow content around a float element.
By default, the float area is the float element's margin box.
This specification's ‘shape-outside
’ property can be used to
define arbitrary, non-rectangular float areas.
Exclusion element
An block-level element which is not a float and generates an exclusion box. An element generates an exclusion
box when its ‘wrap-flow
’ property's computed value is
not ‘auto
’.
Wrapping context
should the wrapping context be generic and include floats?
The wrapping context of a box is a collection of exclusion areas contributed by its associated exclusion boxes. During layout, a box wraps its inline flow content in the area that corresponds to the subtraction of its wrapping context from its own content area.
A box inherits its containing
block's wrapping context unless it
specifically resets it using the ‘wrap-through
’ property.
Content area
The area used for layout of the inline flow content of a box. By
default the area is equivalent to the content box.
This specification's ‘shape-inside
’ property can define
arbitrary, non-rectangular content areas.
shrink-to-fit circle / shape
Outside and inside
In this specification, ‘outside
’ refers to DOM content that is not a
descendant of an element while ‘inside
’ refers to the element's descendants.
Exclusion elements define exclusion areas that contribute to their containing block's wrapping context. As a consequence, exclusions impact the layout of their containing block's descendants.
Elements layout their inline content in their content area and wrap around the areas in their
associated wrapping context. If the
element is itself an exclusion, it does not wrap around its own exclusion
shape and the impact of other exclusions on other exclusions is controlled
by the ‘z-index
’ property as
explained in the exclusions order section.
The shape properties can be used to change the shape of exclusion areas.
An element becomes an exclusion when its ‘wrap-flow
’
property has a computed value other than ‘auto
’.
wrap-flow
’
propertyName: | wrap-flow |
---|---|
Value: | auto | both | start | end | maximum | clear |
Initial: | auto |
Applies to: | block-level elements. |
Inherited: | no |
Percentages: | N/A |
Media: | visual |
Computed value: | as specified except for element's whose ‘float ’ computed value is not none , in which case the computed value is ‘auto ’.
|
Consistent use of start/end/top/bottom
The values of this property have the following meanings:
If the property's computed value is ‘auto
’, the element does not become an
exclusion.
Otherwise, a computed ‘wrap-flow
’ property value of ‘both
’, ‘start
’, ‘end
’, ‘maximum
’ or ‘clear
’ on an element makes that element an exclusion element. It's exclusion
shape is contributed to its containing block's wrapping context, causing the containing
block's descendants to wrap around its exclusion area.
An exclusion element establishes a new block formatting context (see [CSS21]) for its content.
Combining exclusions
The above figure illustrates how exclusions are combined. The outermost
box represents an element's content box. The A, B, C and D darker gray
boxes represent exclusions in the element's wrapping context. A, B, C and D have their
respective ‘wrap-flow
’ set to ‘both
’, ‘start
’, ‘end
’ and ‘clear
’ respectively. The lighter gray areas
show the additional areas that are excluded for inline layout as a result
of the ‘wrap-flow
’ value. For example, the area to
the right of ‘B
’ cannot be used
for inline layout because the ‘wrap-flow
’ for ‘B
’ is ‘start
’.
The background ‘blue
’ area
shows what areas are available for the element's inline content layout.
All areas represented with a light or dark shade of gray are not available
for inline content layout.
Add an example with auto-height content and z-index for exclusions order.
Fluidity of the layout with respect to different amounts of content
The ‘wrap-flow
’ property values applied to an
absolutely positioned element.
<div id="grid"> <div id="exclusion">Donec metus …</div> <div id="content">Lorem ipsum…</div> </div> <style type="text/css"> #grid { width: 30em; height: 30em; display: grid; grid-columns: 50% 25% 25%; grid-rows: 40% 20% 40%; } #exclusion { grid-row: 2; grid-column: 2; wrap-flow: <see below> } #content { grid-row: 1; grid-row-span: 3; grid-column: 1; grid-column-span: 3; } </style>
The following figures illustrate the visual rendering for different
values of the ‘wrap-flow
’ property. The gray grid lines
are marking the grid cells. and the blue area is the exclusion box
(positioned by the grid).
#exclusion{ wrap-flow: auto; }
| #exclusion{ wrap-flow: both; }
|
#exclusion{ wrap-flow: start; }
| #exclusion{ wrap-flow: end; }
|
#exclusion{ wrap-flow: maximum; }
| #exclusion{ wrap-flow: clear; }
|
An exclusion affects the inline flow content descended
from the exclusion's containing blocks (defined in
CSS 2.1 10.1) and that of all descendant elements of the same
containing block. All inline flow content inside the containing block of
the exclusions is affected. To stop the effect of exclusions defined
outside an element, the ‘wrap-through
’ property can be used (see
the propagation of exclusions
section below).
For exclusions with ‘position:fixed
’, the containing block is that of
the root element.
wrap-margin
’
property The ‘wrap-margin
’ property can be used to
offset the inline flow content wrapping on the outside of exclusions.
Offsets created by the ‘wrap-margin
’ property are offset from the
outside of the exclusion. This property takes on positive values only.
Name: | wrap-margin |
---|---|
Value: | <length> |
Initial: | 0 |
Applies to: | exclusion elements |
Inherited: | no |
Percentages: | N/A |
Media: | visual |
Computed value: | the absolute length |
wrap-padding
’
Property The ‘wrap-padding
’ property can be used to
offset the inline flow content wrapping on the inside of elements. Offsets
created by the ‘wrap-padding
’ property are offset from the
content area of the element. This property
takes on positive values only.
Name: | wrap-padding |
---|---|
Value: | <length> |
Initial: | 0 |
Applies to: | exclusion elements |
Inherited: | no |
Percentages: | N/A |
Media: | visual |
Computed value: | the absolute length |
wrap-padding
’ property affects layout of
content inside the element it applies to while the ‘wrap-margin
’
property affects layout of content outside the element.By default, an element inherits its parent wrapping context. In other words it is subject to the exclusions defined outside the element.
Setting the ‘wrap-through
’ property to ‘none
’ prevents an element from inheriting its
parent wrapping context. In other words,
exclusions defined ‘outside
’ the
element, have not effect on the element's children layout.
wrap-through
’ set to none, or the element
itself, then exclusion still have an effect on the children of that
containing block element.wrap-through
’
Propertydo we need wrap-through?
Name: | wrap-through |
---|---|
Value: | wrap | none |
Initial: | wrap |
Applies to: | block-level elements |
Inherited: | no |
Percentages: | N/A |
Media: | visual |
Computed value: | as specified |
The values of this property have the following meanings:
Using the ‘wrap-through
’ property to control the
effect of exclusions.
<style type="text/css">
#grid {
display: grid;
grid-columns: 25% 50% 25%;
grid-rows: 25% 25% 25% 25%;
}
#exclusion {
grid-row: 2;
grid-row-span: 2;
grid-column: 2;
wrap-flow: <see below>
}
#rowA, #rowB {
grid-row-span: 2;
grid-column: 1;
grid-column-span: 3;
}
#rowA {
grid-row: 1;
}
#rowB {
grid-row: 3;
}
</style>
<style type="text/css">
.exclusion {
wrap-flow: both;
position: absolute;
left: 20%;
top: 20%;
width: 50%;
height: 50%;
background-color: rgba(220, 230, 242, 0.5);
}
</style>
<div id="grid">
<div class=”exclusion”></div>
<div id="rowA" style=”wrap-through: wrap;”> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet...</div>
<div id="rowB" style=”wrap-through: none;”> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet...</div>
</div>
wrap
’
Shorthand PropertyName: | wrap |
---|---|
Value: | <wrap-flow> || <wrap-margin> [ / <wrap-padding>] |
Initial: | see individual properties |
Applies to: | block-level elements |
Inherited: | no |
Percentages: | N/A |
Media: | visual |
Computed value: | see individual properties |
The ‘wrap
’
property is a shorthand property for setting the exclusions properties at
the same place in the style sheet.
Exclusions follow the painting order (See [CSS21] Appendix E). Exclusions are
applied in reverse to the document order in which they are defined. The
last exclusion appears on top of all other exclusion, thus it affects the
inline flow content of all other preceding exclusions or elements
descendant of the same containing block. The ‘z-index
’ property can be used to change the
ordering of positioned
exclusion boxes (see [CSS21]). Statically positioned
exclusions are not affected by the ‘z-index
’ property and thus follow the painting
order.
Improve Example 3 about exclusion order
Ordering of exclusions.
<style type="text/css">
.exclusion {
wrap-flow: both;
position: absolute;
width: 50%;
height: auto;
}
</style>
<div class=”exclusion” style=”top: 0px; left: 0px;”>
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet...
</div>
<div id="orderedExclusion" class=”exclusion” style=”top: 25%; left: 25%;”>
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet...
</div>
<div class=”exclusion” style=”top: 50%; left: 50%;”>
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet...
</div>
#orderedExclusion{ z-index:
auto; }
| #orderedExclusion{ z-index: 1;
}
|
Is the CSS exclusions processing model incorrect?
Concerns over Error accumulation vs. performance
The rules for exclusions order and exclusions on absolutely positioned elements (particularly those with static position) build this exclusions model on top of the absolute positioning model in CSS Level 2, rather than on top of floats, the existing exclusion model in CSS Level 1 and 2. The CSS Working Group has not reached consensus on whether it intends to base the new exclusions features in this specification on top of absolute positioning (as these sections of this specification do) or on top of floats.
This module does not depend on any particular positioning scheme.
Applying exclusions is a two-step process:
In this step, the user agent determines which containing
block each exclusion area belongs to.
This is a simple step, based on the definition of containing blocks and
elements with a computed value for ‘wrap-flow
’ that is not auto
.
In this step, starting from the top of the rendering tree (see [CSS21]), the the agent processes each containing block in two sub-steps.
Resolving the position and size of exclusion boxes in the wrapping context may or may not require a layout. For example, if an exclusion box is absolutely positioned and sized, a layout may not be needed to resolve its position and size. In other situations, laying out the containing block's content is required.
When a layout is required, it is carried out without applying any exclusion area. In other words, the containing block is laid out without a wrapping context.
Step 2-A yields a position and size for all exclusion boxes in the wrapping context.
Scrolling is ignored in this step when resolving the position and size
of ‘position:fixed
’ exclusion boxes.
Finally, the content of the containing block is laid out, with the
inline content wrapping around the wrapping
content‘s exclusion
areas (which may be different from the exclusion box because of the
’shape-outside' property).
When the containing block itself is an exclusion box, then rules on exclusions order define which exclusions affect the inline and descendant content of the box.
This section illustrates the exclusions processing model with an example. It is meant to be simple. Yet, it contains enough complexity to address the issues of layout dependencies and re-layout.
The code snippet in the following example has two exclusions affecting the document's inline content.
<html> <style> #d1 { position:relative; height: auto; color: #46A4E9; border: 1px solid gray; } #e1 { -webkit-wrap-flow: both; position: absolute; left: 50%; top: 50%; width: 40%; height: 40%; border: 1px solid red; margin-left: -20%; margin-top: -20%; } #d2 { position: static; width: 100%; height: auto; color: #808080; } #e2 { -webkit-wrap-flow: both; position: absolute; right: 5ex; top: 1em; width: 12ex; height: 10em; border: 1px solid lime; } </style> <body> <div id="d1"> Lorem ipsusm ... <p id="e1"></p> </div> <div id="d2"> Lorem ipsusm ... <p id="e2" ></p> </div> </body> </html>
The following figures illustrate:
DOM tree
Layout tree of generated block boxes
The figures illustrate how the boxes corresponding to the element
sometimes have a different containment hierarchy in the layout tree than
in the DOM tree. For example, the box generated by e1
is positioned in its containing block's box, which is
the d1-box
, because e1
is
absolutely positioned and d1
is relatively
positioned. However, while e2
is also absolutely
positioned, its containing block is the initial containing block (ICB).
See the section 10.1 of the CSS 2.1 specification ([CSS21]) for details.
As a result of the computation of containing blocks for the tree, the boxes belonging to the wrapping contexts of all the elements can be determined:
e2
box: WC-1 (Wrapping
Context 1)
d1
inherits the body element's wrapping context and adds the e1-box
to it. So the wrapping context is made of both
the e1-box
and the e2-box
:
WC-2
d2
inherits the body element's wrapping context: WC-1
In this step, each containing block is processed in turn. For each containing block, we (conceptually) go through two phases:
In our example, this breaks down to:
d1
element's wrapping context: RWC-2
d1
element
d2
element's wrapping context: RWC-1
d2
element
The top-most wrapping context in the
layout tree contains the e2
exclusion. Its position
and size needs to be resolved. In general, computing an exclusion's
position and size may or may not require laying out other content. In our
example, no content needs to be laid out to resolve the e2
exclusion's position because it is absolutely
positioned and its size can be resolved without layout either. At this
point, RWC-1 is resolved and can be used when laying inline content out.
The process is similar: the position of the e1
exclusion needs to be resolved. Again, resolving the exclusion's position
and size may require processing the containing block (d1 here). It is the
case here because the size and position of e1
depend on resolving the percentage lengths. The percentages are relative
to the size of d1
‘s box. As a
result, in order to resolve a size for
’s box, a first layout of d1
d1
is done without any wrapping context (i.e., no exclusions
applied). The layout yields a position and size for e1
‘s box.
At this point, RWC-2 is resolved because the position and size of both e1 and e2 are resolved.
The important aspect of the above processing example is that once an element’s wrapping context is resolved (by resolving its exclusions' position and size), the position and size of the exclusions are not re-processed if the element's size changes between the layout that may be done without considering any wrapping context (as for RWC-2) and the layout done with the resolved wrapping context. This is what breaks the possible circular dependency between the resolution of wrapping contexts and the layout of containing blocks.
There are similarities between floats an exclusions in that inline content wraps around floats and also wraps around exclusion areas. However, there are very significant differences.
float
’ on the line box. Authors
can control how the floats move on the line box, to the right or to the
left. By contrast, exclusions can be positioned using any positioning
scheme such as grid layout ([CSS3-GRID-LAYOUT]),
flexible box ([CSS3-FLEXBOX]) or any other
CSS positioning scheme.
Floats have an effect on the positioning of exclusions and the layout of their inline content. For example, if an exclusion is an inline-box which happens to be on the same line as a float, its' position, as computed in Step 2-A will be impacted by the float, as is any other inline content.
Exclusions have an effect on the positioning of floats as they have an effect on inline content. Therefore, in Step 2-B, floats will avoid exclusion areas.
Handling visible content as a shape for Exclusions
Shapes define arbitrary geometric contours around which or into which
inline flow content flows. There are two different types of shapes –
‘outside
’ and ‘inside
’. The outside shape defines the exclusion area for an exclusion element or the float area for a float. The inside shape defines an
element's content shape and the element's inline content will
flow within that shape.
It is important to note that while outside shapes only apply to exclusions and floats, inside shapes apply to all block-level elements.
While the boundaries used for wrapping inline flow content outside and inside an element can be defined using shapes, the actual box model does not change. If the element has specified margins, borders or paddings they will be computed and rendered according to the [CSS3BOX] module.
However, floats are an exception. If a float has an outside shape, its positioning is resolved as defined in [CSS21] but using the outside shape's bounding box is used in lieu of the float's margin box.
CSS ‘shape-outside
’ and CSS box model
relation: the red box illustrates the exclusion element's content box,
which is unmodified and subject to normal CSS positioning (here absolute
positioning).
<style type="text/css">
.exclusion {
wrap-flow: both;
position: absolute;
top: 25%;
left: 25%;
width: 50%;
height: 50%;
shape-outside: circle(50%, 50%, 50%);
border: 1px solid red;
}
</style>
<div style=”position: relative;”>
<div class=”exclusion”></div>
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet...
</div>
In the following example the left and right floating div
elements specify a triangular shape using the
‘shape-outside
’ property.
<div style="text-align:center;">
<div id="float-left"></div>
<div id="float-right"></div>
<div>
Sometimes a web page's text content appears to be
funneling your attention towards a spot on the page
to drive you to follow a particular link. Sometimes
you don't notice.
</div>
</div>
<style type="text/css">
#float-left {
shape-outside: polygon(0,0 100%,100% 0,100%);
float: left;
width: 40%;
height: 12ex;
}
#float-right {
shape-outside: polygon(100%,0 100%,100% 0,100%);
float: right;
width: 40%;
height: 12ex;
}
</style>
</div>
Shapes can be specified using SVG basic shapes. The
definitions use <length>
type and the <percentage>
types (see [CSS3VAL]).
Percentages are resolved from the border box of the element to which the
property applies. For the radius r
of the circle
shape, a percentage value is resolved as specified in the SVG
recommendation (see [SVG11])
The following SVG shapes are supported by the CSS shapes module.
curve
’ values
represent rx and ry - define the
rounded rectangles, the x and y axis
and radius of the ellipse used to round off the corners of the
rectangle
If the polygon is not closed the user-agent will automatically add a new vertex at the end.
An SVG shape can be referenced using the url()
syntax. The
shape can be any of the SVG
basic shapes or a path
element.
<style> .in-a-circle { shape-inside: url(#circle_shape); } .in-a-path { shape-inside: url(#path-shape); } </style> <svg ...> <circle id="circle_shape" cx="50%" cy="50%" r="50%" /> <path id="path-shape" d="..." /> </svg> <div class="in-a-circle">...</div> <div class="in-a-path">...</div>
When using the SVG syntax or referencing SVG elements to define shapes,
all the lengths expressed in percentages are resolved from the border box
of the element. The coordinate system for the shape has its origin on the
top-left corner of the border box with the x-axis running to the right and
the y-axis running downwards. If the SVG element uses unitless coordinate
values, they are equivalent to using ‘px
’ units. If the border box of the element is
dependent on auto sizing (i.e., the element's ‘width
’ or ‘height
’ property is ‘auto
’), then the percentage values resolve to
0.
Do we need to provide properties to repeat exclusion images as for the background-image property?
Use the contour() keyword. <img id=shape-me
url=foo><style>#shape-me { shape-outside: contour;
}</style> //equal to ‘shape-outside:
url(foo)
’ shape-outside: attr(src as url);
Specify what happens with animated images
Address security concern with automatic shape extractions for images
Another way of defining shapes is by specifying a source image whose
alpha channel is used to compute the inside or outside shape. The shape is
computed to be the path that encloses the area where the opacity of the
specified image is greater than the ‘shape-image-threshold
’ value. If the
‘shape-image-threshold
’ is not specified,
the initial value to be considered is 0.5.
Note, images can define cavities and inline flow content should wrap inside them. In order to avoid that, another exclusion element can be overlaid.
For animated raster image formats (such as GIF), the first frame of the animation sequence is used. For SVG images ([SVG11]), the image is rendered without animations applied.
Shapes are declared with the ‘shape-outside
’ or ‘shape-inside
’
properties. The ‘shape-outside
’ property changes the
geometry of an exclusion
element‘s exclusion
area or or a float element
’s float
area. If the element is not an exclusion
element (see the ‘wrap-flow
’ property) or a float, then the
‘shape-outside
’ property has no effect.
The ‘shape-inside
’ property defines an
element's content area and the element's
inline flow content wraps into that shape. The ‘shape-inside
’
property applies to all block-level elements.
shape-outside
’
PropertyName: | shape-outside |
---|---|
Value: | auto | <shape> | <uri> |
Initial: | auto |
Applies to: | exclusion elements and floats |
Inherited: | no |
Percentages: | N/A |
Media: | visual |
Computed value: | computed lengths for <shape>, the absolute URI for <uri>, otherwise as specified |
The values of this property have the following meanings:
rectangle
’, ‘circle
’, ‘ellipse
’ or ‘polygon
’.
auto
’ had been specified.
Arbitrary shapes for exclusions
The above figure shows how ‘shape-outside
’ shapes impact the
exclusion areas. The red box represents an element's content box and
‘A
’, ‘B
’, ‘C
’ and ‘C
’ represent exclusions with a complex shape
and their ‘wrap-flow
’ property set to ‘both
’, ‘start
’, ‘end
’ and ‘clear
’, respectively.
As illustrated in the picture, when an exclusion allows wrapping on all
sides, text can flow inside ‘holes
’ in the exclusion (as for exclusion
‘A
’). Otherwise, the exclusion
clears the area on the side(s) defined by ‘wrap-flow
’, as
illustrated for ‘B
’, ‘C
’ and ‘D
’ above.
shape-inside
’
Property The ‘shape-inside
’ modifies the shape of the
inner inline flow content from rectangular content box to an arbitrary
geometry.
Name: | shape-inside |
---|---|
Value: | outside-shape | auto | <shape> | <uri> |
Initial: | outside-shape |
Applies to: | block-level elements |
Inherited: | no |
Percentages: | N/A |
Media: | visual |
Computed value: | computed lengths for <shape>, the absolute URI for <uri>, otherwise as specified |
Should we revisit the decision to not allow SVG path syntax in the shape-inside, shape-outside properties
Specify overflow behavior for shape-inside
The values of this property have the following meanings:
shape-outside
’ property.
rectangle
’,‘
circle
’, ‘ellipse
’
or ‘polygon
’.
auto
’ had been specified.
The ‘shape-inside
’ property applies to floats.
The ‘shape-inside
’ property may not apply on
some elements such as elements with a computed ‘display
’ value of ‘table
’.
shape-image-threshold
’ Property The ‘shape-image-threshold
’ defines the alpha
channel threshold used to extract the shape using an image. A value of 0.5
means that all the pixels that are more than 50% transparent define the
path of the exclusion shape. The ‘shape-image-threshold
’ applies to both
‘shape-outside
’ and ‘shape-inside
’.
The specified value of ‘shape-image-threshold
’ is applied to both
images used for ‘shape-outside
’ and ‘shape-inside
’.
Name: | shape-image-threshold |
---|---|
Value: | <alphavalue> |
Initial: | 0.5 |
Applies to: | block-level elements |
Inherited: | no |
Percentages: | alpha channel of the image specified by <uri> |
Media: | visual |
Computed value: | The same as the specified value after clipping the <alphavalue> to the range [0.0,1.0]. |
The values of this property have the following meanings:
The shape properties apply to
Conformance requirements are expressed with a combination of descriptive assertions and RFC 2119 terminology. The key words “MUST”, “MUST NOT”, “REQUIRED”, “SHALL”, “SHALL NOT”, “SHOULD”, “SHOULD NOT”, “RECOMMENDED”, “MAY”, and “OPTIONAL” in the normative parts of this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119. However, for readability, these words do not appear in all uppercase letters in this specification.
All of the text of this specification is normative except sections explicitly marked as non-normative, examples, and notes. [RFC2119]
Examples in this specification are introduced with the words “for
example” or are set apart from the normative text with
class="example"
, like this:
This is an example of an informative example.
Informative notes begin with the word “Note” and are set apart from
the normative text with class="note"
, like this:
Note, this is an informative note.
Conformance to CSS Exclusions and Shapes is defined for three conformance classes:
A style sheet is conformant to CSS Exclusions and Shapes if all of its declarations that use properties defined in this module have values that are valid according to the generic CSS grammar and the individual grammars of each property as given in this module.
A renderer is conformant to CSS Exclusions and Shapes if, in addition to interpreting the style sheet as defined by the appropriate specifications, it supports all the features defined by CSS Exclusions and Shapes by parsing them correctly and rendering the document accordingly. However, the inability of a UA to correctly render a document due to limitations of the device does not make the UA non-conformant. (For example, a UA is not required to render color on a monochrome monitor.)
An authoring tool is conformant to CSS Exclusions and Shapes if it writes style sheets that are syntactically correct according to the generic CSS grammar and the individual grammars of each feature in this module, and meet all other conformance requirements of style sheets as described in this module.
So that authors can exploit the forward-compatible parsing rules to assign fallback values, CSS renderers must treat as invalid (and ignore as appropriate) any at-rules, properties, property values, keywords, and other syntactic constructs for which they have no usable level of support. In particular, user agents must not selectively ignore unsupported component values and honor supported values in a single multi-value property declaration: if any value is considered invalid (as unsupported values must be), CSS requires that the entire declaration be ignored.
To avoid clashes with future CSS features, the CSS2.1 specification reserves a prefixed syntax for proprietary and experimental extensions to CSS.
Prior to a specification reaching the Candidate Recommendation stage in the W3C process, all implementations of a CSS feature are considered experimental. The CSS Working Group recommends that implementations use a vendor-prefixed syntax for such features, including those in W3C Working Drafts. This avoids incompatibilities with future changes in the draft.
Once a specification reaches the Candidate Recommendation stage, non-experimental implementations are possible, and implementors should release an unprefixed implementation of any CR-level feature they can demonstrate to be correctly implemented according to spec.
To establish and maintain the interoperability of CSS across implementations, the CSS Working Group requests that non-experimental CSS renderers submit an implementation report (and, if necessary, the testcases used for that implementation report) to the W3C before releasing an unprefixed implementation of any CSS features. Testcases submitted to W3C are subject to review and correction by the CSS Working Group.
Further information on submitting testcases and implementation reports can be found from on the CSS Working Group's website at http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/Test/. Questions should be directed to the public-css-testsuite@w3.org mailing list.
For this specification to be advanced to Proposed Recommendation, there must be at least two independent, interoperable implementations of each feature. Each feature may be implemented by a different set of products, there is no requirement that all features be implemented by a single product. For the purposes of this criterion, we define the following terms:
The specification will remain Candidate Recommendation for at least six months.
This specification is made possible by input from Andrei Bucur, Alexandru Chiculita, Arron Eicholz, Daniel Glazman, Arno Gourdol, Chris Jones, Marcus Mielke, Alex Mogilevsky, Mihnea Ovidenie, Virgil Palanciuc, Peter Sorotokin, Eugene Veselov, Stephen Zilles and the CSS Working Group members.
shape-image-threshold
’, 4.4.3.
<alphavalue>
’, 4.4.3.
shape-inside
’, 4.4.2.
shape-outside
’, 4.4.1.
wrap
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3.3.2.
wrap-flow
’, 3.1.1.
wrap-margin
’, 3.2.1.
wrap-padding
’, 3.2.2.
wrap-through
’, 3.3.1.
Property | Values | Initial | Applies to | Inh. | Percentages | Media |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
shape-image-threshold | <alphavalue> | 0.5 | block-level elements | no | alpha channel of the image specified by <uri> | visual |
shape-inside | outside-shape | auto | <shape> | <uri> | outside-shape | block-level elements | no | N/A | visual |
shape-outside | auto | <shape> | <uri> | auto | exclusion elements and floats | no | N/A | visual |
wrap | <wrap-flow> || <wrap-margin> [ / <wrap-padding>] | see individual properties | block-level elements | no | N/A | visual |
wrap-flow | auto | both | start | end | maximum | clear | auto | block-level elements. | no | N/A | visual |
wrap-margin | <length> | 0 | exclusion elements | no | N/A | visual |
wrap-padding | <length> | 0 | exclusion elements | no | N/A | visual |
wrap-through | wrap | none | wrap | block-level elements | no | N/A | visual |