relative positioning of floats

Posted 2002-10-17 @ 23:16:40

I posted this question to www-style (twice), but got no response.

According to the CSS2 specification, An element is said to be positioned if its 'position' property has a value other than 'static'.

That's clear enough, but the spec appears to contradict itself in its definition of the float property. One one hand, it's said that float applies to all but positioned elements and generated content, which, by definition, means that elements with position:relative cannot be floated. But, the very next paragraph goes on to say that [float] may be set for elements that generate boxes that are not absolutely positioned.

So, can an element with position:relative be floated?