Re: CSS 3 Comments

On 11/5/13 11:25 AM, "Brady Duga" <duga@google.com<mailto:duga@google.com>> wrote:

I was also thinking about different margins based on page-facing. Do we need to target new, left and right pages? Or even/odd pages? Seems like this is a complex enough discussion to avoid in LC comments.

PrinceXML uses margin-inside and margin-outside. There's been some talk in the CSS WG about allowing element styling based on @page context (:left, :right, :first).

So much of layout involves position—it's OK to hyphenate a word, except when it's the last word on a left-hand page. I sometimes feel that our biggest problem isn't that CSS is missing some features, it's that CSS doesn't allow us to target the situations we want to change. The first page of a chapter, the last word on the page, the second star to the right…

Dave



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