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>.
This is definitely not 100% correct but I tried implementing the basic
algorithms described in CSS 2.2. It's good enough to render the penguin
on @linusg's homepage at the right size. :^)
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.
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().
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.
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.
