Re: [css-multicol] can overflow content influence column height?

On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Alan Stearns <stearns@adobe.com> wrote:
> On 10/14/13 10:37 AM, "Håkon Wium Lie" <howcome@opera.com> wrote:
>>An issue come up today in a discussion with a seasoned multicol
>>implementer: does overflow content influence column height?
>>
>>Consider a multicol element with two columns, and column breaks after
>>each paragraph:
>>
>>  article { columns: 2; background: yellow }
>>  p { break-after: column }
>>
>>Then you pour three <p> elements into the <article>: two one-liners
>>and then one long paragraph (say, 10 lines). What's the resulting
>>height of the article? 1 or 10 lines (disregarding padding for a
>>moment).
>>
>>I can see two alternatives:
>>
>>(1) the multicol element is made high enough to fit all columns. In
>>this case, there will be three columns: two with one line each, and a
>>third column -- outside the multicol element -- with 10 lines. The
>>yellow box will be high enough to fit the third column, even if it
>>shown outside the multicol element.
>>
>>(2) the multicol element is made high enough to fit all columns that
>>end up inside the box. So there will be two columns with one line of
>>text each inside the multicol element, and then there will be 10
>>overflow columns outside.
>>
>>I think I have a slight preference for (2).
>
> I agree with (2). The spec already says that column-balancing is not
> applied through overflow columns in continuous media (does paged media
> even have overflow columns?), and that column spanning can be ignored in
> overflow columns. I'd say that the height of overflow columns should be
> ignored in determining the height of the multicolumn element.

Agreed, for the same reasons.

~TJ

Received on Tuesday, 15 October 2013 17:48:51 UTC