[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 267700] <br> tags are incorrectly effected by *{position:absolute; }

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=267700

--- Comment #3 from zalan <zalan at apple.com> ---
(In reply to Thepaceis at gmail.com from comment #2)
> (In reply to zalan from comment #1)
> > Thank you for reporting this issue.
> > This new behavior is considered a progression and it is inline with the CSS
> > spec as discussed here https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/5749
> > (Firefox has been behaving like this for quite some time)
> 
> Well, although I may not agree with the reasoning behind this new behaviour,
> I do appreciate you getting back to me.  
> 
> There needs to be a reliable analogue to \n, and it feels like someone
> didn't think this through.
> 
> It would be nice to see a usecase where this new behaviour makes sense? It
I don't think there's a such a use case. This change was carried out simply to align the implementation with the relevant CSS spec i.e. when an inline level element gains out-of-flow positioning, it should stop affecting the neighboring in-flow content. Whether having such forced line break makes sense, I am not sure. You could argue that instead of blockification we should apply inlinification (or rather ignore blockification) on forced line break inline level boxes and let them always be in-flow. If you feel strongly about it, you should open an issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues.
I am going to close this bug for now (works as expected).

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