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Appendices

7.10 Common Margin Properties-Block

margin-top[top]

CSS2 Definition:

CSS2 Reference: [ "margin-top" property ] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/box.html#propdef-margin-top

Margin-width may be one of the following:

auto

See the CSS2 section on computing widths and margins for behavior.

<length>

Specifies a fixed width.

<percentage>

The percentage is calculated with respect to the width of the generated box's containing block. This is true for 'margin-top' and 'margin-bottom', except in the page context, where percentages refer to page box height.

Negative values for margin properties are allowed, but there may be implementation-specific limits.

Sets the top margin of a box.

XSL modifications to the CSS definition:

• Margin-top is provided for compatibility with CSS.

• Details on the mapping of CSS "margin" properties for XSL are given in [refinement] .

margin-bottom[top]

CSS2 Definition:

CSS2 Reference: [ "margin-bottom" property ] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/box.html#propdef-margin-bottom

Margin-width may be one of the following:

auto

See the CSS2 section on computing widths and margins for behavior.

<length>

Specifies a fixed width.

<percentage>

The percentage is calculated with respect to the width of the generated box's containing block. This is true for 'margin-top' and 'margin-bottom', except in the page context, where percentages refer to page box height.

Negative values for margin properties are allowed, but there may be implementation-specific limits.

Sets the bottom margin of a box.

XSL modifications to the CSS definition:

• Margin-bottom is provided for compatibility with CSS.

• Details on the mapping of CSS "margin" properties for XSL are given in [refinement] .

margin-left[top]

CSS2 Definition:

CSS2 Reference: [ "margin-left" property ] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/box.html#propdef-margin-left

Margin-width may be one of the following:

auto

See the CSS2 section on computing widths and margins for behavior.

<length>

Specifies a fixed width.

<percentage>

The percentage is calculated with respect to the width of the generated box's containing block.

Negative values for margin properties are allowed, but there may be implementation-specific limits.

Sets the left margin of a box.

XSL modifications to the CSS definition:

• Margin-left is provided for compatibility with CSS.

• Details on the mapping of CSS "margin" properties for XSL are given in [refinement] .

margin-right[top]

CSS2 Definition:

CSS2 Reference: [ "margin-right" property ] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/box.html#propdef-margin-right

Margin-width may be one of the following:

auto

See the CSS2 section on computing widths and margins for behavior.

<length>

Specifies a fixed width.

<percentage>

The percentage is calculated with respect to the width of the generated box's containing block.

Negative values for margin properties are allowed, but there may be implementation-specific limits.

Sets the right margin of a box.

XSL modifications to the CSS definition:

• Margin-right is provided for compatibility with CSS.

• Details on the mapping of CSS "margin" properties for XSL are given in [refinement] .

space-before[top]

XSL Definition:

Values have the following meanings:

<space>

Specifies the minimum, optimum, and maximum values for the space before any areas generated by this formatting object and the conditionality and precedence of this space.

Specifies the value of the space-specifier for the space before the areas generated by this formatting object. A definition of space-specifiers, and the interaction between space-specifiers occurring in sequence are given in [spacecond] .

NOTE: 

A common example of such a sequence is the "space-after" on one area and the "space-before" of its next sibling.

space-after[top]

XSL Definition:

Values have the following meanings:

<space>

Specifies the minimum, optimum, and maximum values for the space after any areas generated by this formatting object and the conditionality and precedence of this space.

Specifies the value of the space-specifier for the space after the areas generated by this formatting object. A definition of space-specifiers, and the interaction between space-specifiers occurring in sequence are given in [spacecond] .

NOTE: 

A common example of such a sequence is the "space-after" on one area and the "space-before" of its next sibling.

start-indent[top]

XSL Definition:

Values have the following meanings:

<length>

The "start-indent" is specified as a length.

<percentage>

The "start-indent" is specified as a percentage of the inline-progression-dimension of the containing reference-area.

For each block-area generated by this formatting object, specifies the distance from the start-edge of the content-rectangle of the containing reference-area to the start-edge of the content-rectangle of that block-area.

This property may have a negative value, which indicates an outdent.

end-indent[top]

XSL Definition:

Values have the following meanings:

<length>

The "end-indent" is specified as a length.

<percentage>

The "end-indent" is specified as a percentage of the inline-progression-dimension of the containing reference-area.

For each block-area generated by this formatting object, specifies the distance from the end-edge of the content-rectangle of that block-area to the end-edge of the content-rectangle of the containing reference-area.

This property may have a negative value, which indicates an outdent.