[csswg-drafts] [CSS Backgrounds and Borders Level 4] neither border-style nor border-clip gives control over dotted borders

Meteor0id has just created a new issue for https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts:

== [CSS Backgrounds and Borders Level 4] neither border-style nor border-clip gives control over dotted borders ==
border-style
https://www.w3.org/TR/2017/CR-css-backgrounds-3-20171017/#the-border-style

border-limit
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-backgrounds-4/#border-limit

At the bottom of the description of border-style there are two notes I wish to address, these are the subject of this issue report.

> Note: There is no control over the spacing of the dots and dashes, nor over the length of the dashes. Implementations are encouraged to choose a spacing that makes the corners symmetrical.
> 
> Note: This specification does not define how borders of different styles should be joined in the corner. Also note that rounded corners may cause the corners and the contents to overlap, if the padding is less than the radius of the corner.

This to me seems a very clear hint for the next draft, to include more control over border-style. So I went over to the upcoming draft wich covers borders to see if the issue would be addressed. Indeed some effort is made, using border-limit.
border-limit could be used as a subistute for all kids of striped border, and will give much more control.
This is great, but unfotunatly not a complete solution yet. There is still no control over the starting point for dotted borders, nor can any other advanced settings be applied to them.

Therefor I encurage, lets either add another value to border-limit, or come up with a seperate property, to give more control over all sorts of border-styles, including dotted borders.

Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/2843 using your GitHub account

Received on Thursday, 28 June 2018 11:37:53 UTC