Re: [css-grid] Reduced Subgrid Proposal

On 23 May 2016, at 14:29, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:

> On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 2:51 PM, fantasai 
> <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net> wrote:
>
>>   * We are making subgrid behavior contingent on there not being
>>     any grid-template-* declarations, rather than merely ignoring
>>     them, with the hope that authors will not leave any such
>>     declarations lying around. Our goal is to allow for more
>>     sophisticated interleaving of subgrid and parent grid lines
>>     (e.g. 1-axis subgrids) using these properties. This may or may
>>     not work out as planned. :)
>
> And in further discussion with dholbert, we decided *not* to do this -
> the upgrade story is *way* too uncertain to rely on, so there's not a
> good reason to try out carve out syntax.  If we do 1-axis subgrid in
> the future, we'll do so via a different 'display' value, or another
> property, or something else new like that.

Are you thinking something like 'display: subgrid-col' and 'display: 
subgrid-row' to achieve that 1-axis behavior?  Not trying to pin you 
down to exact syntax or values or even patterns, but I'd like to get a 
sense of the thinking here.


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Received on Monday, 23 May 2016 19:40:45 UTC