- From: Una Kravets via GitHub <noreply@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:53:00 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
Hi and thank you for for your work and attention on this! I respectfully disagree that adding `center` to the span makes this more clear, but I do think there is an alternative solution (though I'm also not convinced we should add another alias to this API): Currently, if you start at the bottom cell and span to the right, the code is: `position-area: bottom span-right`. In the new proposal it would be: `position-area: bottom center-span-right`. I am not convinced this is more clear to a user, and if anything adds confusion. The keyword (verb) "span" should be after the initial position to indicate a shift. `bottom span-right` indicates you start at the bottom cell and span (include) the right cell. In contrast `bottom right` indicates you start at the bottom then shift to the right, ending in the bottom right cell. This also aligns with grid cell spanning language where "span" is the keyword indication inclusion of the cells. If I was to write a CSS class for something that starts at the bottom position and spans to the right, it would be `.bottom-span-right`, not `.bottom-center-span-right`. Is it possible that the _initial position_ is the confusing one (i.e. it's unclear that "bottom" means to start at the "center-bottom)? I still think that the `span` keyword should not be pre-pended, but would something like `position: center-bottom span-right` be more clear? I would only want to add an alias if this made a significant improvement to developer experience, which I'm also not convinced of at this point. -- GitHub Notification of comment by una Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/12683#issuecomment-3720049973 using your GitHub account -- Sent via github-notify-ml as configured in https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config
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