Inline-block standards compliant?

I'm doing some layout work on a project and ran into some vertical
aligment issues that seemed to be most easily fixed by using
display:inline-block.

This renders well in the latest versions of IE, Firefox and Safari.
I've never heard of this property before, and some googling uncovered
this document:

http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#propdef-display

It says "Candidate Recommendation", can I be assured that this
property will continue to be supported by compliant browsers? Or is
there a chance that it will not be supported by CSS 3?

Thanks

On 2009-02-11, Mark Smith <marksmith5555 (AT) jungle-monkey (DOT) com> wrote:

I'm doing some layout work on a project and ran into some vertical
aligment issues that seemed to be most easily fixed by using
display:inline-block.

This renders well in the latest versions of IE, Firefox and Safari.
I've never heard of this property before, and some googling uncovered
this document:

http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#propdef-display

It says "Candidate Recommendation", can I be assured that this
property will continue to be supported by compliant browsers? Or is
there a chance that it will not be supported by CSS 3?

Despite the warnings at the top, CSS 2.1 is the specification all modern
browsers are based on. Inline-block has been around for a while but only
supported in Firefox since version 3. There's a very low chance of it
being removed in CSS 3.

Ben C pisze:
[...]

Despite the warnings at the top, CSS 2.1 is the specification all modern
browsers are based on. Inline-block has been around for a while but only
supported in Firefox since version 3. There's a very low chance of it
being removed in CSS 3.

Inline-block works too in IE 6/7, but IE 6/7 accepts the value only on
elements with a natural display:inline.

--
Peter