Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-multicol] Shouldn't column-fill: auto take min-height into account?

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&lt;dael> Topic: Shouldn't column-fill: auto take min-height into account?<br>
&lt;dael> github: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/3064<br>
&lt;dael> fantasai: If you have colum-fill:auto it doesn't take effect if you have auto height multicol container. Goal of auto is fill first column then move rather then balance. Fixed height or page we can fill.<br>
&lt;dael> fantasai: Commentor said if height works, why not fill up to min-height?<br>
&lt;dael> fantasai: Reasonable to me. rachelandrew agrees<br>
&lt;dael> florian: Max is reasonable, but why min?<br>
&lt;dael> florian: Why would you stop at a min.<br>
&lt;dael> fantasai: Because at the min you balance<br>
&lt;dael> dbaron: If you have more than that? You've filled all columns at min and you have more, do you go back and do it again?<br>
&lt;dael> rachelandrew: Yes, I think so.<br>
&lt;dael> dbaron: Seems like a very special case. I don't feel it's work adding the complexity of redoing it a second way because someone suggested it's nice<br>
&lt;dael> myles: second that<br>
&lt;dael> florian: I'm a big fan of multicol being smarter, but I'm not convinced on this<br>
&lt;dael> fantasai: What's happening now is if you have a min-height and you say auto it will balance and not fill the column. You have all this extra space because you have a min-height. Was max-height you don't necessarily have extra space.<br>
&lt;dael> florian: What do you mean you balance?<br>
&lt;dael> astearns: Useful for case where there is not enough content when columns balanced to meet min-height. In that case all columns don't fill min-height. CHange is some columns would fill min-height. Too much content, though, is a second pass<br>
&lt;dael> rachelandrew: Request makes sense. If it's worth impl is different issue. Expectation makes sense.<br>
&lt;dael> florian: I need to re-read. astearns explanation sounded different<br>
&lt;dael> astearns: I might be wrong, that's my take<br>
&lt;dael> dbaron: I get the model, but having trouble imaging the design were someone wants this<br>
&lt;dael> fantasai: Can go back to commentor and ask for more info<br>
&lt;dael> rachelandrew: Using min-height we haven't seen much because only float was available. Now that we have grid people thinking about layout different. Using min-height is common and powerful. If there's more content I want to use min-height because I don't want ti to be smaller then viewport.<br>
&lt;dael> rachelandrew: At first glance this looks like a powerful use case that would be helpful. But I've been looking for 2.5 minutes<br>
&lt;dael> dbaron: Broader then min-height?<br>
&lt;dbaron> s/?/?  whenever the height comes from something else?/<br>
&lt;dael> florian: Original comment was more shouldn't make auto take computed height?<br>
&lt;dael> fantasai: Question is shouldn't column-fill auto...okay, yea.<br>
&lt;dael> dbaron: Another example is if you have a multicol whose height is stretched should column-fill: auto work? I think not right now<br>
&lt;dael> rachelandrew: As an author I want it to workt he same everywhere<br>
&lt;dael> rachelandrew: If the height is created by a grid track or a min-height...al the many ways to create height. They should all look the same<br>
&lt;dael> dbaron: More sympatetic for a general approach then just min-height<br>
&lt;dael> florian: Same here<br>
&lt;dael> ??: Makes sense<br>
&lt;dbaron> s/??/rachelandrew/<br>
&lt;dael> astearns: rachelandrew do you think there's enough for you to work on this?<br>
&lt;dael> rachelandrew: I'll think about it. Maybe discuss at F2F?<br>
&lt;dael> astearns: A whiteboard would be good for this<br>
&lt;dael> rachelandrew: I'll have athink on this<br>
&lt;dael> astearns: Let's add F2F Agenda tag to this<br>
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