dorayme <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote in news:doraymeRidThis-
10CA04.15233508042008@news-vip.optusnet.com.au:

> In article <WoOdnYR9Y7aBZWfanZ2dnUVZ_gKdnZ2d@golden.net>,
> Gus Richter <gusrichter@netscape.net> wrote:
>
>> dorayme wrote:
>> >
>> > I am inclined to actually use the phrase "containing block" where the
>> > context shows it to do a job of containing.
>> >
>
> In the float rules you refer to, the idea of containment, as I have been
> thinking about it, refers to a parent in a particular set up

The containing block is not neccessarily the parent.


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