[css-inline-3] handling the line gap metric
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Description
IIRC, we had an inconsistency among browsers about whether line-height: normal includes the font’s line gap metric or not. It's not clear to me whether we can get interop on this or not, but my suggested definition is:
- it is included for the root inline box
- it is not included for any other inline box
Interested in thoughts from @litherum / @jfkthame ... we can also continue to leave it undefined.
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- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the CSS Inline 3 issue and its discussion of whether line-height: normal includes the font’s line gap metric. Compare the proposed root-inline-box and other-inline-box definitions with current browser behavior to determine whether interop is possible. Done means reaching and documenting a resolved definition or confirming that the behavior should remain undefined.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- css
- Domain
- frontend, web-dev
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100