Re: [css-variables] Referencing all properties (Issue 4, !important) from Sebastian Zartner on 2012-09-07 (www-style@w3.org from September 2012)

From: Sebastian Zartner <sebastianzartner@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 06:56:11 +0200
To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
Cc: François REMY <fremycompany_pub@yahoo.fr>, CSS WG <www-style@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CAERejNYvf+3YP1YFaB_g4o6-kEOFfEmwHxVhwkeaCsJo4HD3JA@mail.gmail.com>

There are many use cases, in which you want to refer to the computed
value of another property.
E.g. last week I would have liked to use calc() (actually -moz-calc())
in relation to the calculated height of an element (having "height"
set to a percentual value, and pixel values for "min-height" and
"max-height"), which obviously doesn't work at the moment.

Anyway, I totally agree that referencing all properties should be put
into level 2. As François said it's just something we shouldn't block
with the syntax we choose for level 1.

Sebastian

Received on Friday, 7 September 2012 04:56:39 UTC