Re: "(non-)replaced"?

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[Crossposted and followups set to
<news:comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets >]

In article <hsivonen-C1B6AC.11011529122004 (AT) news (DOT) dnainternet.net>,
Henri Sivonen <hsivonen (AT) iki (DOT) fi> wrote:

In article <user-461ADB.09280129122004 (AT) news (DOT) euro.net>,
Sander Tekelenburg <user (AT) domain (DOT) invalid> wrote:

[...]

I was wondering whether an empty SPAN with a background
image and explicit width is a valid construction.

It the syntactic sense it is valid.

I use that construction at <http://www.lotzofmusic.com/>. Mozilla
1.7.5, Opera 7.5.4 and iCab 3.0 happily deal with this the way I
hoped

Only because the display property computes to block, because you
have set float: left;.

Yes, that would make sense. However, I don't see that confirmed by

http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#dis-pos-flo

which says "[...] if 'float' has a value other than 'none', the box
is floated and 'display' is set according to the table below [...]".
Then in 'the table below' it seems to say that in this case display
is set to "same as specified". Eh?

(Ah, I see that <http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#q27> even
provides an example of a floating SPAN with an explicit width.)

[...]

But then why does the W3C validator not complain?

Declaring properties that do not apply in some situations is not a
syntax error.

Duh, I knew that - just forgot to think of it Thanks.

Btw, are there CSS checkers that have more to offer than mere
syntactic validation?

[The reason I posted this to ciwah, in spite of all the CSS
involved, was that it seemd to be about elements and thus about
HTML.]

This is all CSS stuff.

So it seems. Crossposting and setting followups to
<news:comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets >

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