It seems like both BFC and IFC can have absolutely positioned children.
It's a bit strange, but consider the following HTML:
<html><body>foobar<img style="position: absolute"></body></html>
In such a document, the <img> element is an absolutely positioned child
of a block-level element (<body>) with no block-level children.
An IFC is established for <body>, and needs to handle layout for <img>.
Empty boxes should be fully collapsed, but a box with border and/or
padding is not empty.
This fixes an issue where <hr> elements were getting weirdly collapsed
since they have zero content height (but some border height.)
Instead of storing them as CSS::Lengths, we now store the resolved
values for margin/padding/border/offset top/right/bottom/left with
each Layout::NodeWithStyleAndBoxModelMetrics.
This simplifies a lot of code since it's no longer necessary to
resolve values before using them.
Replaced elements are now laid out by the current formatting context.
Since the logic is almost identical in BFC and IFC, it's implemented
by static helpers in FormattingContext.
Once we've generated enough lines to make it past all the floating
boxes on either side, just forget those boxes. This simplifies the
available space computation since we don't have to consider boxes
that can't vertically intersect the current line anyway.
After we've cleared past some floating elements, we should not keep
stacking new floats horizontally.
Instead, new floats after the clear should once again start at the
left or right edge of their containing block.
The BFC "context box" is now the outer box of the block formatting
context. Previously the context box was always the current target box,
which made it hard to reason about who was really the containing block
of whom in various places.
Note that IFC still has the containing block as its context box, this
change only affects BFC. However, to clarify the situation in IFC,
I've added a containing_block() getter than returns the context_box().
Instead of plowing through all the floating boxes within a BFC and
doing all the layout up front, do the children of each block as we go.
This will allow us to know the vertical position of the containing
block when placing floats.
I realized that we're supposed to float the boxes sideways, but not
always to y=0, so that makes it logical to share the placement logic
with other normal non-replaced blocks.
This is still pretty buggy but we're getting closer. :^)
This is definitely not fully-featured, but basically we now handle
the clear property by forcing the cleared box below the bottom-most
floated box on the relevant side.
Boxes can now be floated left or right, which makes text within the
same block formatting context flow around them.
We were creating way too many block formatting contexts. As it turns
out, we don't need one for every new block, but rather there's a set
of rules that determines whether a given block creates a new block
formatting context.
Each BFC keeps track of the floating boxes within it, and IFC's can
then query it to find the available space for line boxes.
There's a huge hack in here where we assume all lines are the exact
line-height. Making this work with vertically non-uniform lines will
require some architectural changes.
We were not accounting for space occupied by borders when computing
the vertical (y) position of blocks. This meant that blocks with wide
top/bottom borders could bleed into each other incorrectly.
Fix this by using the combined padding+border geometry instead of just
the padding when placing blocks on the y axis.
We were incorrectly resolving relative length units (ex, em, etc.)
against the containing block in many cases. Fix this to resolve them
against the descendant box we're currently processing.
Bring the names of various boxes closer to spec language. This should
hopefully make things easier to understand and hack on. :^)
Some notable changes:
- LayoutNode -> Layout::Node
- LayoutBox -> Layout::Box
- LayoutBlock -> Layout::BlockBox
- LayoutReplaced -> Layout::ReplacedBox
- LayoutDocument -> Layout::InitialContainingBlockBox
- LayoutText -> Layout::TextNode
- LayoutInline -> Layout::InlineNode
Note that this is not strictly a "box tree" as we also hang inline/text
nodes in the same tree, and they don't generate boxes. (Instead, they
contribute line box fragments to their containing block!)
This is a first (huge) step towards modernizing the layout architecture
and bringing it closer to spec language.
Layout is now performed by a stack of formatting contexts, operating on
the box tree (or layout tree, if you will.)
There are currently three types of formatting context:
- BlockFormattingContext (BFC)
- InlineFormattingContext (IFC)
- TableFormattingContext (TFC)
Document::layout() creates the initial BlockFormattingContext (BFC)
which lays out the initial containing block (ICB), and then we recurse
through the tree, creating BFC, IFC or TFC as appropriate and handing
over control at the context boundaries.
The majority of this patch is just refactoring the old logic spread out
in LayoutBlock and LayoutTableRowGroup, and turning into these context
classes instead. A lot more cleanup will be needed.
There are many architectural wins here, the main one being that layout
is no longer performed by boxes themselves, which gives us much greater
flexibility in the outer/inner layout of a given box.
