[whatwg] Alignment of empty buttons

[Ian Hickson]

On Fri, 3 May 2013, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
> On 5/3/13 7:07 PM, Christian Biesinger wrote:
> > fantasai pointed out that CSS does specify this:
> > "If the box does not have a baseline, align the bottom margin edge
> > with the parent's baseline."
> > (http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/visudet.html#propdef-vertical-align)
> 
> Yes, but that _if_ the box does not have a baseline.  CSS does not 
> specify what replaced elements do or do not have baselines (and it's not 
> completely clear even whether <button> is a replaced elements)...

The HTML spec is pretty explicit about it not being:

# When the button binding applies to a button element, the element is 
# expected to render as an 'inline-block' box rendered as a button whose 
# contents are the contents of the element.
 -- http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-button-element-0

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