RE: [css3-multicol] column-span property

I think "column-span:all" is equivalent to a sequence of multicol elements:

h2 { columns:1}  
bodytext { columns:3 }

With column-span, the behavior is equivalent to adding anonymous multicol elements before and after column-span, which is pretty much what an implementation would have to do. Anonymous anything is an implementation hassle though, so if it could be avoided it would make our life esier;)

-----Original Message-----
From: Håkon Wium Lie [mailto:howcome@opera.com] 
Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 2:40 PM
To: Alex Mogilevsky
Cc: www-style@w3.org
Subject: RE: [css3-multicol] column-span property

Also sprach Alex Mogilevsky:

 > Column-span prevously allowed values other than '1' and 'all' but  > it was scaled down because of added complexity of cases where span  > has more columns than available.

Right. My intention, however, is to scale it back up again in level 4 or something.

 > IMO the property in its current form is unnecessary. All use cases  > I can think of are covered by either page floats in GCPM or nested  > multicolumn elements.

How would you express the use case in the spec?:

  h2 { column-span: all }

-h&kon
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