Re: [css-backgrounds] border-position

> On Oct 16, 2017, at 6:42 PM, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 10/13/2017 03:54 AM, Benjamin De Cock wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 10:13 PM, Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com <mailto:brad.kemper@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>    Yeah, the border box is always going to be outside the padding box, and ‘box-sizing’ will combine with things like ‘width’
>>    (or ‘max-width’, ‘flex-basis’, etc.) to determine the dimensions of the border box, which then leads to how much space is
>>    used for layout.
>>    However, it would be possible to have something like ‘border-image-offset’ to shift the ink of the line without changing
>>    layout. I could see ‘border-offset’ being similar to that, but shifting the border ink (as determined by border-style and
>>    border-width) instead of an image. Because it could cause overlapping with existing content, you’d have to be careful with
>>    margin and padding, and it probably wouldn’t be your default way of designing layouts. But I could see that being very
>>    useful if we ever get a feature for doing multiple, overlapping borders. Yeah I really like that, and I agree it'd be extremely useful/powerful! Elika: any thoughts on this?
> 
> I'd want to see examples that show why this is a significantly
> better approach than what we currently have, for some substantial
> number of use cases. :)
> 
> The current approach has the benefit that you don't get overlapping
> content (unless you ask for it explicitly with negative margins).
> If we add this feature, we lose that safety.
> 
> Also, adding features always has a cost, so we have to balance the
> benefits of spending that effort here vs elsewhere.
> 
> ~fantasai
> 

Apparently, what we have regarding multiple borders is a note in an editor’s draft saying we are working on them. 

https://drafts.csswg.org/css-backgrounds-4/#level-changes

Is there a blog post or something that suggests a syntax and how it would work?

With border-image, authors already have the ability to push borders outside the safety net when they want to knowingly choose to. I think it would be useful to bring that ability to regular borders. The way I envision it, the safety net would still be there for multiple borders that were not shifted in or out. 

But yeah, I will try to post some samples when I get a chance.