- From: David Hill via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2019 21:52:27 +0000
- To: public-houdini-archive@w3.org
vidhill has just created a new issue for https://github.com/w3c/css-houdini-drafts:
== [css-typed-om] CSSNumericValue .to() function, wishful thinking ==
[CSSNumericValue](https://drafts.css-houdini.org/css-typed-om-1/#dom-cssnumericvalue-to), specifically the `to()` function.
I was playing about thought (hoped) the conversion methods would be able to convert REMs to pixels..
```javascript
CSS.rem(1).to('px') // doesn't work
```
I note the caveat;
according to the [Google article](https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/03/cssom) it is limited to [Absolute length](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/length#Absolute_length_units)s
I can understand how converting something like `em`s to pixels wouldn't work because that would require the context of the dom node, as the size of one `em` depends on context...
But the `rem` unit specifically, is tied to the root element, so it should be possible.
Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/css-houdini-drafts/issues/876 using your GitHub account
Received on Friday, 12 April 2019 21:52:28 UTC