- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 17:58:19 -0700
- To: Daniel Holbert <dholbert@mozilla.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Daniel Holbert <dholbert@mozilla.com> wrote: > Hi www-style, > > The current editor's draft of the flexbox spec[1] is inconsistent on whether > the margin & padding properties can take the flex() function. > > Section 5 "Flexibility" says that they *cannot* take flex(): >> Paddings and margins are made flexible by setting their >> value to ‘auto’, while the width and height of a box can >> be controlled more precisely with the ‘fr’ unit or the >> ‘flex()’ function, both defined below. > http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-flexbox/#flexibility > > But Section 8.1 "Initial Computation" says that they *can* take flex(): >> For margins and padding: >> [...] >> Otherwise, if the length was specified with the ‘flex()’ function > http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-flexbox/#initial-computation > > I'm guessing that Section 8.1 is wrong -- I think that the "Otherwise" > clause that I quoted just wants to be deleted, right? Yup, that clause was left over from a previous draft, when margins and padding *could* take flex(). Fixed, thanks! ~TJ
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