[csswg-drafts] [css-grid] Should grid-template-areas accept empty strings? (#5110)

• From: Oriol Brufau via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
• Date: Mon, 25 May 2020 14:37:29 +0000
• To: public-css-archive@w3.org
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Loirooriol has just created a new issue for https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts:

== [css-grid] Should grid-template-areas accept empty strings? ==
```js
CSS.supports("grid-template-areas", `""`)
CSS.supports("grid-template-areas", `"" ""`)
```

They are both `true` in Firefox and `false` in Chromium and old Edge. Looking at https://drafts.csswg.org/css-grid/#propdef-grid-template-areas,

 - There is no trash token.
 - All strings have the same number of columns (0).
 - There's in no non-rectangular named grid area (since there's no named grid area).

So it seems valid per the spec. But also pretty pointless, so possibly it was not deliberate. Given that neither Chromium nor old Edge support that, should we really allow it?

Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/5110 using your GitHub account

Received on Monday, 25 May 2020 14:37:30 UTC