- From: David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net>
- Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 12:20:46 -0800
- To: "Hakon Lie" <howcome@w3.org>
- Cc: "Chris Josephs" <cpj1@visi.com>, "Style" <www-style@w3.org>
I wrote:
> For the sake of consistency and greater control, how about
> 'column-margin' and 'column-padding'?
Thinking out loud again...
Not as versatile -- but simpler to implement -- would be to have only
padding-column and column-rule, with column-rule being the same as a
vertical border inasmuch as it extends the full height of the padding:
+-----------------------------------+
| +--------------+--------------+ |
| | column one | column two | |
| | column one | column two | |
| | column one | column two | |
/ |
/ \
padding- column-
column rule
Of course an author wanting column rules that don't extend above or
below the text AND a background box that does would have to nest the
element with columns inside another element with the background, but
that's no big deal (good use for a contextual selector).
David Perrell
Received on Monday, 4 November 1996 15:23:34 UTC