Re: text-oveflow for _multiline_ texts

>
> So it's quite natural to expect that regular current units like 'px' or
> 'em' would be kept allowed _along_ with introduced new 'ln' unit convenient
> for cases where exact _integer_ number of visible lines of text is needed
> by design of a website.
>

I totally agree with this approach.

--
Samuel Santos
http://www.samaxes.com/


2012/3/12 Marat Tanalin | tanalin.com <mtanalin@yandex.ru>

> I don't think there is a reason for units in 'height' values to be limited
> specifically for cases where multiline text-overflow is used.
>
> So it's quite natural to expect that regular current units like 'px' or
> 'em' would be kept allowed _along_ with introduced new 'ln' unit convenient
> for cases where exact _integer_ number of visible lines of text is needed
> by design of a website.
>
>
> 12.03.2012, 20:44, "Samuel Santos" <samaxes@gmail.com>:
> > Hi Brad,
> >
> > height: 3ln; may be useful for layouts with a flexible height, but is
> not that useful for layouts using fixed heights on HTML elements.
> > For those elements, units like 'px' or 'em' or '%' should also be
> supported.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > --
> > Samuel Santos
> > http://www.samaxes.com/
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> I don't recall reading Tab's reply, but that isn't surprising, since it
> happened during the infamous January of a thousand e-mails.
> >> It looks like he and I agree that "A new unit based on the height of
> line-boxes is a separate issue" and that "Once you have a measurement like
> this, then text-overflow does not need it's own separate way of
> constraining its height.". I would also agree that a measurement based on
> lines or line-height could be useful. Then my example would be written like
> this:
> >>
> >>  DIV {
> >>    height: 3ln;
> >>    overflow: clip;
> >>    text-overflow: ellipsis multi;
> >>
> >>  }
> >> My main problem with this is that 'ln' looks too much like 'in',
> especially if you use an uppercase "i", as in 'In'.
> >>
> >> On Mar 12, 2012, at 7:45 AM, Samuel Santos <samaxes@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi all,
> >>>
> >>> Is there any progress on this?
> >>>
> >>> I also agree with Brad, the height attribute is indeed useful.
> >>> Lots of applications use fixed height values to arrange HTML elements
> on a page.
> >>> For those elements you don't really care about the number of text
> lines that will fit in, you just want to ensure that the height of the
> element remains the same.
> >>> I'm not sure about the usefulness of the line-height attribute though.
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Samuel Santos
> >>> http://www.samaxes.com/
> >>>
> >>>> On Jan 15, 2012, at 2:06 PM, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>>>> It seems odd to me to have the text clipping done by something
> other than an edge of the content box. If you have a measure for number of
> lines (3ln, above), then why not use that for box height (height: 3ln;)?
> Then you could have something like 'text-overflow-lines: single | multi',
> and use it in a shorthand that defaults to 'single'. A new unit based on
> the height of line-boxes is not strictly necessary for this, and is really
> a separate issue. Until then, this would suffice to accomplish your main
> goal, I think:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> DIV {
> >>>>>>   line-height: 1.5em;
> >>>>>>   height: 4.5em;
> >>>>>>   overflow: clip;
> >>>>>>   text-overflow: ellipsis multi;
> >>>>>> }
> >>>>>
> >>>>> This isn't *quite* ideal, since a tall image or inline-block could
> >>>>> make one of the lines taller than 1.5em, but this is probably a
> >>>>> corner-case (and such outsized lines should be avoided in any case,
> as
> >>>>> they're unattractive).
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm just saying its a separate problem. It could be useful to set a
> vertical measure (height, min-height, max-height, for instance) to a number
> of line-boxes tall, so that even if some of the line boxes were taller than
> the line-height, it would still measure out to the right number of lines.
> If it was more lines than what the actual contents created, then
> 'line-height' would be used to determine what 1ln equaled. I believe the
> request has come up before to have a measurement based on lines or
> line-height, and this would also allow you to set border-width to that
> measure (which would equal to line-height of itself). For replaced elements
> such as images, 1ln could be equal to the height it would take to fit
> exactly into the line box without increasing the line box height.
> >>>>
> >>>> Once you have a measurement like this, then text-overflow does not
> need it's own separate way of constraining its height.
>