Re: [css-break][css-overflow-3][css-regions][css4-ui] generalizing 'region-fragment' into a fragmentation primitive: a first step to solving multi-line ellipsis

> On Mar 13, 2015, at 2:26 AM, Florian Rivoal <florian@rivoal.net> wrote:
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>> On 13 Mar 2015, at 03:16, Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On Jan 20, 2015, at 2:55 PM, Florian Rivoal <florian@rivoal.net> wrote:
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>>> The behavior of max-lines is defined in terms of inserting a fragment
>>> break after the specified number of lines. Making it apply on non
>>> fragmentainers would have unexpected effects if that definition is kept.
>>> "p {max-lines:3;}" would not limit p to 3 lines (To do that, use
>>> "p {max-lines:3; fragmentation:break;}"). Instead it would insert a page
>>> break after 3 lines into the paragraph if you're on paged media, or do
>>> nothing on continuous media, etc, which is probably not what the
>>> author intended.
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>> I think that on continuous media it should just hide everything after the three lines. It would be like 'overflow: hidden', but clipping the text content where you want, without clipping the background or child elements. That seems like it could be useful sometimes.
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> I am not sure I follow you about child elements,

Ah, well it isn't my main point, but I was just thinking that if there were a bunch of (or even just one) block level children before you found 3 line boxes (and those children didn't have line boxes contributing to the count), then you should break before those children, in order to better match the author's intent. But that's a sort of separate topic, I guess. 

> but otherwise, that's what it does if you combine it with continue:discard [1]. It turns the element into a fragmentainer, so max-lines can apply.

Understood, but my point is that max-lines should give the same sort of look even without needing something to turn the element into a fragmentainor. It could be nearly as useful as 'overflow: hidden', with a variation on what exactly is hidden. That seems like a better choice than having max-lines do nothing in that context. 

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> [1] http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-overflow/#fragmentation
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> - Florian

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