Re: Suggestion: Introduce new height property value for full fitting space from Simon Sapin on 2014-03-12 (www-style@w3.org from March 2014)

From: Simon Sapin <simon.sapin@exyr.org>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 15:38:50 +0000
To: Axel Dahmen +ADw-brille1+AEA-hotmail.com+AD4, www-style+AEA-w3.org
Message-ID: <53207F8A.6000606@exyr.org>

On 12/03/2014 14:13, Axel Dahmen wrote:
> This new keyword is supposed to set the height of a box element to the 
> maximum possible value after
> subtracting all the heights of sibling boxes from the viewport height, 
> thus the box will exactly fit the
> viewports height.

What happens if more than one sibling have that keywords? Distribute the
space equally to them? This starts sounding like Flexbox. (Maybe with
'height: 100vh' on the flex container.)

Does Flexbox not solve this?

-- 
Simon Sapin

Received on Wednesday, 12 March 2014 15:39:19 UTC