- From: Tyler Sticka via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 20:46:54 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
Really quick, I'd just like to say "thanks" to everyone for giving this so much deep thought and discussion. Greatly appreciated. > @tylersticka could you look through the minutes above and weigh in with your thoughts about making this property more high-level (larger/normal/smaller instead of a particular size)? I've re-read the transcript a few times, and I'll admit to feeling pretty skeptical. Let's say you have a horizontal menu containing multiple buttons side by side with some space around and between… <img width="378" alt="Two buttons side by side, one labeled 'Button 1' and the other 'Button 2'" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/69633/74873576-53498580-5314-11ea-9546-f9ff5f48b612.png"> ```html <div class="menu"> <button>Button 1</button> <button>Button 2</button> </div> ``` ```css .menu { display: grid; grid-auto-flow: column; grid-gap: 1em; padding: 1em; } ``` Now let's say we want to extend their interactive area a bit because we want them to be easier to touch. To pull this off today, we might use a pseudo element that extends outward by half of the gap ([CodePen](https://codepen.io/tylersticka/pen/VwLKjPm)): ```css .menu button { position: relative; } .menu button::after { content: ""; position: absolute; top: -0.5em; /* half of grid gap */ bottom: -0.5em; left: -0.5em; right: -0.5em; } ``` This extends the hit area for everyone, and mouse users get a more seamless experience when moving their cursor from one menu item to the next. Hooray! Now in a world where I have `hit-margin` (or whatever we might call it) and I can specify an exact size, simplifying this CSS is very simple. I can instead write: ```css .menu button { hit-margin: 0.5em; /* half of grid gap */ } ``` Since I defined a `grid-gap` of `1em`, I _know_ that `0.5em` is the most I can extend the hit area without overlap. But I'm not sure how I would do that with keywords alone. How do `larger` or `smaller` relate to the white space choices I've defined in my CSS? -- GitHub Notification of comment by tylersticka Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/4708#issuecomment-588451067 using your GitHub account
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