Re: box-sizing: border-box;

On 10/28/03 11:33 AM, "Boris Zbarsky" <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU> wrote:

> 
>> My statement is simple I don't like the content-box model! could someone
>> persuade me otherwise? I just don't understand why if I say; div
>> {width:200px;padding:7px;border:2px} that width dosn't mean 200px.
> 
> Note that adding the box-sizing property would involve expanding the section
> on
> computing widths and heights a good deal (as well as changing what "computed
> width" actually means, possibly).
> 
> For example, what is the correct layout of:
> 
> width: 10px; padding: 5px; border: 6px
> 
> with border-box sizing?

What is the only reasonable interpretation of this overconstrained
situation?

Since negative content widths are illegal, it makes sense for the computed
content width to be set to 0 in this case.

Tantek