- From: Florian Rivoal via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 01:23:20 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
> Fixed now. We went with matching Grid's behavior - spacing is added in addition to the gutters, giving Florian's behavior #2. While I agree that this has slightly unfortunate implications with multicol's default column-gap, we think it's more important to have a consistent behavior than to give this a slightly different behavior that's slightly more optimal by default. Hmmm. Grid gaps were designed to be the same as grid tracks, except empty, so I expect that behavior on Grid. Column gaps were not, so I do not have the same expectation. > [...] you can set up your minimum values with a combination of *-gap and padding on the container [...] Yeah, but the default value of column-gap is `normal`, not a specific length, so to use that approach you can no longer rely on the default value of column-gap. I don't think I'd necessarily object to the approach you're championing, but I do prefer the alternative, and wish we had a group discussion on this. There's also an other issue, kind of separate from this one but interacting with it: When the actual numbers of columns ends up being one, do we still want to apply whatever alignment model `justify-content` tells us, or do we want to fall back to `normal`/`stretch`, to preserve the current behavior of "single column multi-col is indistinguishable form block layout in a BFC"? Needing to set the padding in proportion of the column gap to achieve `space-evenly` and `space-around` would interact poorly with that. You can solve it with media queries, but that requires manual math, whose complexity depends on what your multicol is nested in. You would not have that issue if gaps worked the way I said, and if we always fell back to `normal`/`stretch` when there's a single column. ---- Anyway, maybe you're right and I am wrong, but I think this would be good to hash out with a white board, and get input from author/author advocates like @jensimmons or @rachelandrew before closing on this. -- GitHub Notification of comment by frivoal Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1420#issuecomment-311226226 using your GitHub account
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