Appendix E. Inheritance Characteristics

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E.1 Font-, Character-, and Spacing-RelatedProperties

This appendix simply lists those formatting objects that exhibit inheritance, based on Appendix C.2 of the specification.

Why is it worth including? To quote from the specification:

During refinement the set of properties that apply to a formatting object is transformed into a set of traits that define constraints on the result of formatting. For many traits there is a one-to-one correspondence with a property; for other traits the transformation is more complex.

And:

The first step in refinement of a particular formatting object is to obtain the effective value of each property that applies to the object. Any shorthand property specified on the formatting object is expanded into the individual properties. ... For any property that has not been specified on the object the inherited or initial value, as applicable, is used as the effective value.

This means some properties on an area that you specify are derived from the ancestors of the current node being formatted. The inheritable properties are propagated down the formatting object tree from a parent to each child. (These properties are given their initial value at the root of the result tree even if you don't specify them.) For a given inheritable property, if that property is present on a child, that value of the property is used for that child (and its descendants until explicitly reset in a lower descendant).

The following lists show the inherited properties for the visual formatting objects. Those not listed are not inherited. They are grouped according to usage.

E.1 Font-, Character-, and Spacing-Related Properties

font
font-family
font-selection-strategy
font-size
font-size-adjust
font-stretch
font-style
font-variant
font-weight
glyph-orientation-horizontal
glyph-orientation-vertical
letter-spacing
line-height
line-height-shift-adjustment
line-stacking-strategy
word-spacing

E.1.1 Visibility-Related Properties

visibility

E.1.2 Writing Mode-Related Properties

direction
reference-orientation
writing-mode

E.1.3 Border- and Text Decoration-Related Properties

border-collapse
border-separation
border-spacing
score-spaces

E.1.4 Whitespace- and Line Break-Related Properties

hyphenate
hyphenation-character
hyphenation-keep
hyphenation-ladder-count
hyphenation-push-character-count
hyphenation-remain-character-count
linefeed-treatment
orphans
white-space
white-space-collapse
white-space-treatment
widows
wrap-option

E.1.5 Leader- and Rule-Related Properties

leader-alignment
leader-length
leader-pattern
leader-pattern-width
rule-style
rule-thickness

E.1.6 Indent-Related Properties

end-indent
last-line-end-indent
start-indent
text-indent

E.1.7 Border-Related Properties

border-collapse
border-separation
border-spacing

E.1.8 Caption-Related Properties

caption-side

E.1.9 Color-Related Properties

color

E.1.10 Alignment-Related Properties

display-align
relative-align
text-align
text-align-last

E.1.11 Table-Related Properties

empty-cells

E.1.12 Keeps- and Breaks-Related Properties

keep-together
page-break-inside

E.1.13 List-Related Properties

provisional-distance-between-starts
provisional-label-separation

E.1.14 Language-Related Properties

country
language
script
text-transform
xml:lang

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