- From: Florian Rivoal via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2020 01:15:23 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
I'm wondering if flex and grid need some kind of extension to allow positioning of "hinges" in them , in a way that the flex/grid layout algorithm could take into account (possibly but no necessarily including a gap at that point). In the case of a flex, that would probably behave sort of like a flex-wrap in terms of laying out and sizing items within each piece of the flex, but unlike flex-wrap, the two pieces wouldn't be on different lines, but contiguous to eachother. If we had something like that, it feels that the environment variables being discussed here would be a lot more useful. Even then, another difficulty with the environment variables is that they give you the position (and size) of the hinge relative to the screen/viewport, but to be able to use them in css for the layout/position/sizing of things that aren't the root element (or absolutely positioned with the root as a containing block), that's not super useful: you'd need to know about whether your parent element / parent formatting context is being cut by a hinge, and if so where in terms that are relative to your layout space. Without that, it feels like you're going to have to use complicated calc expressions to duplicate the way your ancestor chain has been sized / position in order to figure out where the hinge falls with regards to you. -- GitHub Notification of comment by frivoal Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/4736#issuecomment-582689699 using your GitHub account
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