Track transform, filter, backdrop-filter, perspective, containment,
will-change, and content-visibility triggers independently. Use the combined
state for absolute and fixed containing-block ancestry.
Track every non-none transform as a containing-block trigger, including
unsupported visual transforms. Keep separate nearest-ancestor maps so
positioned boxes capture absolute descendants while only transforms capture
fixed descendants.
Reparent inset-positioned absolute boxes to the nearest non-static ancestor
and fixed boxes to the initial containing block. Keep auto-axis boxes on the
existing static-position path, distinguish fixed from absolute, and blockify
positioned inline boxes and floats.
Paint order was pure tree order, so a dropdown/overlay declared before a
later sibling lost to it and a z:-1 decorative backdrop covered its own
content. A positioned element with a non-zero z-index now lifts its
whole subtree into a separate paint layer: negative layers under the
normal flow, positive above it, each sorted ascending with tree order
preserved within equal z. Nested z roots paint inside their ancestor
root's subtree in tree order, the pragmatic core of CSS stacking
contexts.
clear (left/right/both, previously unparsed) now ends the float zone,
so a clearfix element drops below the float at full width instead of
joining the flow column beside it.
Repro-verified: an earlier z:10 overlay paints over a later sibling, a
later z:-1 backdrop paints under earlier content, and the clear repro
matches Chromium within 3px on every measure. Spot set unchanged or
slightly improved; obstacle course 33/33.
Cells now vertical-align the way tables actually do: middle by default
(the effective UA behavior), with author top/middle/bottom parsed and
applied to whichever shape the cell took: main-axis alignment on the
flex-column stand-in, line alignment on a promoted inline context, or a
pinned-origin offset for the pure-text leaf path where the shaped text
height is known at finalize.
Specified column widths finally apply. <col>/<colgroup> widths (style
or attribute, with span) and colspan-1 cell widths are recorded per
column at build time and pinned inside the column-balancing pass: px
directly, percent against the table's content width, with each column's
content min-content still flooring it. The cell's own width is
neutralized once it has fed the column, so the cell box fills its grid
area instead of shrinking to a fraction of its own already-sized track
(a width:50% cell previously ended up at 25 percent). Unspecified
columns keep content sizing but stretch to fill a definite table width
instead of leaving a dead strip of table background. Row and cell
heights act as row minimums.
Verified against Chromium on a 5-case repro (column from cell width,
row backgrounds, vertical alignment, col element width, percent cell in
a fixed table): all match. Wikipedia and the prose spot set unchanged;
obstacle course 33/33.
paint_image clipped an object-fit:cover overflow to the element box but
ignored the ancestor overflow:hidden clip entirely, so a partially
visible image (a half-scrolled carousel slide, a hero cropped by its
section) painted its full raster past the viewport edge. Pass the
already clip-intersected visible rect down and mask against it whenever
the destination exceeds it on any side.
Broken images now fall back the way browsers do: a non-empty alt renders
as text in place of the image with no placeholder box, alt="" renders
nothing (declared decorative), and only a missing alt keeps the neutral
grey placeholder.
Verified with a repro covering the half-clipped cover slide and all
three alt variants; no movement on the image-heavy spot set; obstacle
course 33/33.
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