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Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition
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Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition

by Eric A. Meyer
March 2004
Intermediate to advanced
528 pages
16h 33m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

display

Synopsis

This is used to define the kind of display box an element generates during layout. Gratuitous use of display with a document type such as HTML can be dangerous, as it upsets the display hierarchy already defined in HTML. In the case of XML, which has no such built-in hierarchy, display is indispensable.

Values:

none | inline | block | inline-block | list-item | run-in | table | inline-table | table-row-group | table-header-group | table-footer-group | table-row | table-column-group | table-column | table-cell | table-caption | inherit

Initial value:

inline

Applies to:

all elements

Inherited:

no

Computed value:

varies for floated, positioned, and root elements (see CSS2.1, section 9.7); otherwise, as specified

Note:

the values compact and marker appeared in CSS2 but were dropped from CSS2.1 due to a lack of widespread support

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