On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Christian Hujer <cher@riedquat.de> wrote: > Hi, > > On 2009-05-18 Alex Mogilevsky wrote: >> 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. >> >> 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. > > Maybe I missed something about CSS3. I couldn't find how to do this: > > abc def gh ij k yz abc def ghij > lm n opq rst uv kl mnop q r stu > wxy zab +----------------+ v wxy z > cd efgh | | ab de f > ijk lmn | something else | ghi jkl > opqr st | | mn opqr > v wxyza +----------------+ stuvw x > bcd ef ghij klm yz abc def g hi > no pq rstu vw x jklmn o p qr st > > A multicolumn layout where columns flow aronud something which is placed > relative to columns and spans columns across the gap. > > Because I couldn't find that, I thought I'd suggest this. Maybe I missed > something about page floats which is able to do that? Check out examples XCVIII and XCIX, in section 20.1 of GCPM[1]. It gives that exact example. ^_^ ~TJ [1]: http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-gcpm/#the-float-offset-propertyReceived on Wednesday, 20 May 2009 03:30:19 GMT
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