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Summary

Fixes part of the baseline-export regression group on #627 (Group A). The parley baseline wiring passed Taffy's first_baselines.y through to InlineBox::baseline unconditionally, but CSS requires several classes of atomic inline to synthesize their baseline from the bottom margin edge (baseline: None in parley 0.11) instead of exporting their content's baseline.

Three gates:

  1. compute_child_layout_internal (mod.rs) — split into a wrapper + compute_child_layout_dispatch so it covers every layout path (including tables/form controls), and suppress first_baselines when:

    • the box is a scrollable inline-block (Display::FlowRoot + non-visible/clip overflow) — CSS2 §10.8.1; flex/grid containers keep exporting their content baseline even when scrollable (per baseline-of-scrollable-1a), or
    • the box has contain: layout (css-contain baseline suppression).
  2. inline box update (inline.rs) — parley has no per-box vertical-align; it always anchors a box's baseline (or bottom edge if unset) to the line baseline. For alignments this cannot approximate (middle, text-bottom, sub, non-zero shifts, …) the baseline is left unset so the box aligns by its bottom edge. vertical-align: top keeps exporting: its baseline-anchored rendering coincides with WPT reference emulations (* { vertical-align: top } + margin-top), and gating it regressed 4 flexbox vert tests. Also clamps ibox.baseline to ≥0 to match the non-negative reserved line space when negative margin-top is present (fixes flexbox_inline.html).

  3. inline container output (inline.rs) — an inline root whose first line has no glyph runs (e.g. only a lone image) no longer exports a 0.0 "baseline"; per CSS a box with no in-flow line boxes synthesizes from the bottom margin edge (fixes the object-view-box-* tests).

WPT results (css/CSS2, css-align, css-flexbox, css-grid, css-contain, css-images)

  • Base branch: 5676 PASS → this PR: 5691 PASS (+15, 0 regressions).
  • 15 of the 24 Group A tests now pass.

Remaining 9 Group A failures are not fixable in blitz integration code:

  • baseline-of-scrollable-1b, baseline-block-with-overflow-001: need consumer-dependent suppression of a scrollable block child's baseline during block-layout baseline propagation — a Taffy-side question (Taffy's block algorithm forwards the child baseline; blitz can't see the consumer).
  • grid-baseline-001/002, grid-inline-baseline, grid-inline-items-002, flexbox-baseline-multi-line-horiz-004: Taffy flex/grid baseline synthesis/alignment (e.g. grid's first-row baseline fallback in compute/grid/mod.rs), not blitz wiring.
  • percentage-size-subitems-001 (×2 flex/grid variants), scrollbar-gutter-001/002, floats-141.xht: need real vertical-align support in parley (the refs rely on vertical-align: top/line-height details); gating them here regressed previously-passing tests.

cargo check --workspace, cargo fmt, cargo clippy are clean.

Link to Devin session: https://dioxus.staging.devinenterprise.com/sessions/331985c4732e4248a71184626d9c4a38
Requested by: @nicoburns

WPT results

37 newly passing, 81 newly failing (net -44).

Full diff (118 changed tests)
+ Fail => Pass css/CSS2/bidi-text/bidi-001.xht
+ Fail => Pass css/CSS2/css1/c414-flt-fit-004.xht
- Pass => Fail css/CSS2/floats-clear/float-003.xht
- Pass => Fail css/CSS2/floats-clear/float-replaced-width-006.xht
- Pass => Fail css/CSS2/floats-clear/float-replaced-width-008.xht
- Pass => Fail css/CSS2/floats-clear/float-replaced-width-009.xht
- Pass => Fail css/CSS2/floats-clear/float-replaced-width-011.xht
- Pass => Fail css/CSS2/floats-clear/floats-141.xht
- Pass => Fail css/CSS2/floats/floats-wrap-bfc-002-left-overflow.xht
- Pass => Fail css/CSS2/floats/floats-wrap-bfc-002-left-table.xht
- Pass => Fail css/CSS2/floats/floats-wrap-bfc-002-right-overflow.xht
- Pass => Fail css/CSS2/floats/floats-wrap-bfc-002-right-table.xht
- Pass => Fail css/CSS2/fonts/font-family-applies-to-005.xht
- Pass => Fail css/CSS2/linebox/baseline-block-with-overflow-001.html
- Pass => Fail css/CSS2/linebox/inline-formatting-context-011.xht
- Pass => Fail css/CSS2/linebox/inline-formatting-context-013.xht
- Pass => Fail css/CSS2/linebox/line-height-002.xht
- Pass => Fail css/CSS2/linebox/line-height-004.xht
- Pass => Fail css/CSS2/linebox/line-height-005.xht
- Pass => Fail css/CSS2/linebox/line-height-013.xht
- Pass => Fail css/CSS2/linebox/line-height-015.xht
- Pass => Fail css/CSS2/linebox/line-height-016.xht
- Pass => Fail css/CSS2/linebox/line-height-024.xht
- Pass => Fail css/CSS2/linebox/line-height-026.xht
- Pass => Fail css/CSS2/linebox/line-height-027.xht
- Pass => Fail css/CSS2/linebox/line-height-035.xht
- Pass => Fail css/CSS2/linebox/line-height-037.xht
- Pass => Fail css/CSS2/linebox/line-height-038.xht
- Pass => Fail css/CSS2/linebox/line-height-046.xht
- Pass => Fail css/CSS2/linebox/line-height-048.xht
- Pass => Fail css/CSS2/linebox/line-height-049.xht
- Pass => Fail css/CSS2/linebox/line-height-057.xht
- Pass => Fail css/CSS2/linebox/line-height-059.xht
- Pass => Fail css/CSS2/linebox/line-height-060.xht
- Pass => Fail css/CSS2/linebox/line-height-068.xht
- Pass => Fail css/CSS2/linebox/line-height-070.xht
- Pass => Fail css/CSS2/linebox/line-height-071.xht
- Pass => Fail css/CSS2/linebox/line-height-079.xht
- Pass => Fail css/CSS2/linebox/line-height-081.xht
- Pass => Fail css/CSS2/linebox/line-height-082.xht
- Pass => Fail css/CSS2/linebox/line-height-090.xht
- Pass => Fail css/CSS2/linebox/line-height-092.xht
- Pass => Fail css/CSS2/linebox/line-height-093.xht
- Pass => Fail css/CSS2/linebox/line-height-101.xht
- Pass => Fail css/CSS2/linebox/line-height-103.xht
- Pass => Fail css/CSS2/linebox/line-height-104.xht
- Pass => Fail css/CSS2/linebox/line-height-bleed-001.xht
- Pass => Fail css/CSS2/linebox/line-height-bleed-002.xht
- Pass => Fail css/CSS2/normal-flow/inline-block-replaced-width-001.xht
- Pass => Fail css/CSS2/normal-flow/inline-block-replaced-width-003.xht
- Pass => Fail css/CSS2/normal-flow/inline-block-replaced-width-006.xht
- Pass => Fail css/CSS2/normal-flow/inline-replaced-width-001.xht
- Pass => Fail css/CSS2/normal-flow/inline-replaced-width-003.xht
- Pass => Fail css/CSS2/normal-flow/inline-replaced-width-006.xht
+ Fail => Pass css/CSS2/normal-flow/max-height-036.xht
+ Fail => Pass css/CSS2/normal-flow/max-height-047.xht
- Pass => Fail css/CSS2/normal-flow/max-width-percentage-001.xht
+ Fail => Pass css/CSS2/normal-flow/min-height-036.xht
+ Fail => Pass css/CSS2/normal-flow/min-height-047.xht
- Pass => Fail css/CSS2/normal-flow/min-width-percentage-001.xht
- Pass => Fail css/CSS2/normal-flow/width-percentage-001.xht
- Pass => Fail css/CSS2/normal-flow/width-percentage-002.xht
- Pass => Fail css/CSS2/positioning/absolute-non-replaced-height-008.xht
- Pass => Fail css/CSS2/positioning/absolute-non-replaced-max-height-008.xht
+ Fail => Pass css/CSS2/visudet/content-height-001.html
+ Fail => Pass css/CSS2/visudet/content-height-002.html
+ Fail => Pass css/CSS2/visudet/content-height-003.html
- Pass => Fail css/CSS2/visudet/line-height-201.html
- Pass => Fail css/css-align/baseline-of-scrollable-1b.html
+ Fail => Pass css/css-align/baseline-rules/synthesized-baseline-flexbox-001.html
+ Fail => Pass css/css-align/baseline-rules/synthesized-baseline-grid-001.html
+ Fail => Pass css/css-align/baseline-rules/synthesized-baseline-inline-block-001.html
- Pass => Fail css/css-backgrounds/background-origin/origin-padding-box.html
- Pass => Fail css/css-backgrounds/background-origin/origin-padding-box_with_radius.html
- Pass => Fail css/css-backgrounds/background-size-027.html
- Pass => Fail css/css-backgrounds/background-size-028.html
- Pass => Fail css/css-backgrounds/background-size-030.html
- Pass => Fail css/css-backgrounds/background-size-031.html
- Pass => Fail css/css-break/ruby-003.html
+ Fail => Pass css/css-contain/contain-layout-baseline-002.html
+ Fail => Pass css/css-contain/contain-layout-baseline-003.html
+ Fail => Pass css/css-contain/contain-layout-suppress-baseline-001.html
+ Fail => Pass css/css-contain/contain-layout-suppress-baseline-002.html
+ Fail => Pass css/css-contain/contain-paint-022.html
+ Fail => Pass css/css-flexbox/flexbox-align-self-horiz-001-block.xhtml
+ Fail => Pass css/css-flexbox/flexbox-baseline-align-self-baseline-vert-001.html
+ Fail => Pass css/css-flexbox/flexbox-baseline-multi-item-vert-001a.html
+ Fail => Pass css/css-flexbox/flexbox-baseline-multi-item-vert-001b.html
- Pass => Fail css/css-flexbox/flexbox-baseline-multi-line-horiz-004.html
+ Fail => Pass css/css-flexbox/flexbox-basic-canvas-vert-001.xhtml
+ Fail => Pass css/css-flexbox/flexbox-basic-canvas-vert-001v.xhtml
+ Fail => Pass css/css-flexbox/flexbox-basic-iframe-vert-001.xhtml
+ Fail => Pass css/css-flexbox/flexbox-basic-img-vert-001.xhtml
+ Fail => Pass css/css-flexbox/flexbox-basic-textarea-vert-001.xhtml
+ Fail => Pass css/css-flexbox/flexbox-basic-video-vert-001.xhtml
- Pass => Fail css/css-flexbox/percentage-size-subitems-001.html
- Pass => Fail css/css-fonts/first-available-font-003.html
- Pass => Fail css/css-fonts/first-available-font-004.html
- Pass => Fail css/css-grid/alignment/grid-baseline-001.html
- Pass => Fail css/css-grid/alignment/grid-baseline-002.html
- Pass => Fail css/css-grid/alignment/grid-inline-baseline.html
+ Fail => Pass css/css-grid/alignment/self-baseline/grid-self-baseline-horiz-001.html
+ Fail => Pass css/css-grid/alignment/self-baseline/grid-self-baseline-horiz-003.html
+ Fail => Pass css/css-grid/alignment/self-baseline/grid-self-baseline-vertical-lr-001.html
+ Fail => Pass css/css-grid/alignment/self-baseline/grid-self-baseline-vertical-rl-001.html
- Pass => Fail css/css-grid/grid-items/grid-inline-items-002.html
- Pass => Fail css/css-grid/grid-items/percentage-size-replaced-subitems-001.html
- Pass => Fail css/css-grid/grid-items/percentage-size-subitems-001.html
- Pass => Fail css/css-grid/subgrid/scrollbar-gutter-001.html
- Pass => Fail css/css-grid/subgrid/scrollbar-gutter-002.html
+ Fail => Pass css/css-inline/baseline-source/baseline-source-last-textarea-001.tentative.html
- Pass => Fail css/css-overflow/scrollable-overflow-padding-inline.html
- Pass => Fail css/css-ruby/br-clear-all-000.html
+ Fail => Pass css/css-text/line-breaking/line-breaking-atomic-009.html
+ Fail => Pass css/css-values/ch-unit-001.html
+ Fail => Pass css/css-writing-modes/baseline-with-orthogonal-flow-001.html
+ Fail => Pass css/css-writing-modes/text-combine-upright-shadow.html
+ Fail => Pass css/filter-effects/effect-reference-after-001.html

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