What Are Inline-Level Formatting Objects?

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∟What Are Inline-Level Formatting Objects?

This section describes inline-level formatting objects, like 'inline', 'inline-container', 'character', and 'external-graphic'. They are used to generate inline areas.

What Are Inline-Level Formatting Objects? Inline-Level formatting objects are formatting objects that generate inline areas.

Here is a list of main types of inline-level formatting objects supported in XSL 1.1:

"inline" formatting object - Takes a mix of content of text, inline-level formatting objects and block-level formatting objects to generate an inline area.
"inline-container" formatting object - Takes a sequence of block-level formatting objects to generate an inline area.
"character" formatting object - Takes a character given in its "character" attribute to generate an inline area.
text (also called PCDATA in DTD terminology) - Sequence of characters in formatting object content can also be viewed as an implicit inline-level formatting object.
"external-graphic" formatting object - Takes an image from external source to generate an inline area.
"instream-foreign-object" formatting object - Takes an embedded object, like SVG object, to generate an inline area.