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[css-display] Define block formatting context root, plus a few other minor fixes from #1471.
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Block and inline formatting contexts are defined in
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<a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/visuren.html#normal-flow">CSS 2.1 Section 9.4</a>.
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<dt><dfn>block formatting context root</dfn>
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<dd>
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A <a>block container</a>
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that establishes a new <a>block formatting context</a>.
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<dt><dfn>BFC</dfn>
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<dd>
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Abbreviation for <a>block formatting context</a>.
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Abbreviation for <a>block formatting context</a> or
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<a>block formatting context root</a>.
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Has various informal definitions referring to boxes which
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contain internal floats, exclude external floats, and suppress margin collapsing,
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and may refer specifically to:
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and may therefore refer specifically to one of:
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* a <a>block container</a>
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that establishes a new <a>block formatting context</a> for its contents
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* a <a>block box</a> (i.e. a <a>block-level</a> block container)
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that establishes a block formatting context for its contents
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(as distinguished from a block box which does not)
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* any block-level box that establishes a new formatting context
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* (very loosely) any block-level box that establishes a new formatting context
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(other than an inline formatting context)
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<dt><dfn>out-of-flow</dfn>

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