[TYPO3-content-rendering] CSS Styled Imgtext

[Christopher]

Martin Kutschker wrote:

> Yes, but an image is for the W3C a block level element.
> 
> And redeclaring a span to a block level element with CSS doesn't improve 
> the "correctnes". To the contrary, it degrades the readabilty of your 
> markup.
> 
> I won't mind if you use such code for your projects, but I oppose such 
> usage in any TYPO3 default code.
> 

I'm inclined to agree, except that <img> is not considered by w3c to be 
either _only_ block level or _only_ inline:


"4.3    Replaced elements

A replaced element is an element which is replaced by content pointed to 
from the element. E.g., in HTML, the 'IMG' element is replaced by the 
image pointed to by the 'SRC' attribute. One can assume that replaced 
elements come with their own intrinsic dimensions. If the value of the 
'width' property is 'auto', the intrinsic width is used as the width of 
the element. If a value other than 'auto' is specified in the style 
sheet, this value is used and the replaced element is resized 
accordingly (the resize method will depend on the media type). The 
'height' property is used in the same manner.

Replaced elements can be either block-level or inline."

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS1#replaced-elements


In practice, all browsers that I know of define images as inline 
elements by default (i.e. they do not force a new line when inserted in 
text).

-Christopher