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Replies for: I’d say it’s both. In how HTML is written, it is with no doubt “i”. But in how it is displayed, I’d argue it is also both. If you have a small gree...

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Calin Baenen •

And it's "på" the green box, even if it's still technically "i" the green box?
(Because assuming there's no other styling except for the overflow:hidden; case, the green box would expand to fit the red one, if I remember right.)

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Jonas Petri •

To be clear, I meant something like this:

<div height=“50” width=“50”>
  <div height=“50” width=“50” style=“padding:25px”></div>
</div>
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In this case the inner div will arguably be “på” the outer div as long as you don’t add the overflow: hidden; css rule.

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Calin Baenen •

Thanks.
This is very useful!