Re: [css3-page] Page area changes within a document

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Grant, Melinda wrote:
> Alex Mogilevsky wrote:
> 
>>     I agree with the intent of concept of element adapting to page size
>>     change. The primary scenario as I understand it looks like this:
>> 
>>     table { page: landscape; }
>> 
>>     at this point, if no other sizing properties are involved, the
>>     table’s available width should be the page width. The rule that an
>>     element going across pages, should adapt to changing width is one
>>     way to assure that.
>
>     [MG] I don't think named pages, such as the example you provide, are
>     really the issue at hand: they generate a (conditional) page break
>     before and after, to ensure that you *don't* need to worry about
>     flowing content across discontinuities.
> 
>         The cases we're concerned with here are brought about by :first,
>     :right, and :left variations on a particular page-name theme.  Page
>     foo:right can have a very different page area than foo:left for
>     simple reasons like differing margins or borders, and a page break
>     is likely to occur mid-element, so there's no explicit page break
>     between elements to keep things simple.

<html>
   <body>
     <div>
        <div>
          <table/>
        </div>
     </div>
   </body>
</html>

Remember that in a document where a table is pushed onto a named page,
even though the table itself is isolated by page breaks, its ancestor
elements are still breaking across the page size change.

~fantasai