- From: Sammy Taylor via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2022 20:15:05 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
Just an idea: What if there was a keyword for `height` (and other properties) that behaved _like_ `auto`, but was a separate keyword which was intended for this purpose specifically:
```css
.item.collapsed {
height: 20px;
}
.item.expanded {
height: auto-transitionable; /* probably a better name than this */
}
```
Just wondering if this would make it possible to implement the desired height transition without having to immediately implement all the other things (`calc()`, etc) which make the change to `auto` prohibitively challenging. It could be a known constraint of `auto-transitionable` that it is quirky and shouldn't be used with `calc()`, etc, and shouldn't really be used except to achieve this specific use case. Even if the proposal is kludgey, I would prefer one line of kludgey CSS over a thousand kludgey JS workarounds.
My apologies if this isn't a constructive proposal, as I am not very familiar with the process by which features are integrated into CSS.
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