<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>CSS Writing Modes Test: position absolute and 'vertical-lr' - block flow direction of block-level boxes</title> <link rel="author" title="GĂ©rard Talbot" href="http://www.gtalbot.org/BrowserBugsSection/css21testsuite/" /> <link rel="help" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/css-writing-modes-3/#block-flow" title="3.1 Block Flow Direction: the writing-mode property" /> <link rel="match" href="block-flow-direction-001-ref.xht" /> <meta content="ahem" name="flags" /> <meta content="This test checks that an absolutely positioned box with its 'writing-mode' set to 'vertical-lr' establishes a block formating context with a left-to-right block flow direction." name="assert" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/fonts/ahem.css" /> <style type="text/css"><![CDATA[ body { color: yellow; font: 20px/1 Ahem; } div#abs-pos { height: 9em; left: auto; position: absolute; writing-mode: vertical-lr; } div#abs-pos > div { background-color: blue; border-bottom: blue solid 1em; border-top: blue solid 1em; } div.left-border { border-left: blue solid 1em; } div#right-border { border-right: blue solid 1em; } ]]></style> </head> <body> <div id="abs-pos"> <!-- The 1st left-most line of "P" --> <div class="left-border">AAAAAAA</div> <!-- The 2nd left-most line of "P" --> <div>B C </div> <!-- The 3rd left-most line of "P" --> <div>D E </div> <!-- The 4th left-most line of "P" --> <div>FFFF </div> <!-- The left-most line of "A" --> <div class="left-border">GGGGGGG</div> <!-- The 2nd left-most line of "A" --> <div>H J </div> <!-- The 3rd left-most line of "A" --> <div>K L </div> <!-- The 4th left-most line of "A" --> <div>MMMMMMM</div> <!-- The 1st left-most line of left-most "S" --> <div class="left-border">NNNN Q</div> <!-- The 2nd left-most line of left-most "S" --> <div>R S T</div> <!-- The 3rd left-most line of left-most "S" --> <div>U V W</div> <!-- The 4th left-most line of left-most "S" --> <div>X YYYY</div> <!-- The left-most line of right-most "S" --> <div class="left-border">aaaa b</div> <!-- The 2nd left-most line of right-most "S" --> <div>c d e</div> <!-- The 3rd left-most line of right-most "S" --> <div>f g h</div> <!-- The 4th left-most line of right-most "S" --> <div id="right-border">j kkkk</div> </div> </body> </html>