10.6.7 'Auto' heights for block formatting context roots

Chapter 10 - Visual formatting model details - 10.6.7 'Auto' heights for block formatting context roots

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Block formatting context auto height with floats and bottom margins
The auto height of a block formatting context element is computed by accounting for bottom-margins of floated content which would otherwise be below the bottom edge of that element.
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Block formatting context auto height with floated descendants of the normal flow and bottom margins
The auto height of a block formatting context element is computed by accounting for bottom-margins of floated content descendents in the normal flow which would otherwise be below the bottom edge of that element.
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Block formatting context auto height with floated descendants outside the normal flow and bottom margins
The auto height of a block formatting context element does not account for bottom margins of floated content descendents of out of flow blocks.