Re: [Backgrounds/Borders] Request to remove no-clip value from background-clip

On Mar 25, 2009, at 7:18 PM, "Robert O'Callahan"  
<robert@ocallahan.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>  
> wrote:
> Wouldn't it be useful in case where you had, say, a logo watermark  
> image centered behind a paragraph, and you didn't want it to be  
> clipped or resized if the text was not enough lines to ensure  
> otherwise, and you didn't want the paragraph to have a min-height?
>
> You could use something like this:
> p {
>   position:relative;
>   z-index:0;
> }
> p::before {
>   position:absolute;
>   z-index:-1;
>   content:url(logo.png);
>   left:0;
>   right:0;
>   width:256px;
>   margin-left:auto;
>   margin-right:auto;
> }
>
> Rob

Yeah, I guess so. Kind of complicated and less intuitive for authors.  
More complicated for implementors otherwise.