Re: Notes from a component model pow-wow

A neat side effect of not rendering the host element (whether by "display:
transparent", or implicitly) is that encapsulated styling of a component
becomes trivial. I.e., one may want a component be isolated (i.e., not be
able to access the main document by default, and vice versa), but still
style the host element somehow. At the moment this requires 2 style-sheets:
one to style the host element, and one to style the contents of the
component. If the host element doesn't get a render box, only the latter
remains, which is easy to encapsulate by putting a <style [scoped]> inside
the component tree.


- Roland

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 3:20 AM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote:

> On 9/20/11 11:15 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
>
>> I think this is properly a CSS issue.  You want an element to not
>> exist in the box tree, but to still have its children in the tree,
>> which should be controllable with a display value, perhaps called
>> 'transparent'.
>>
>
> I believe that would be an acceptable solution to this use case, yes. If it
> ever happens.
>
> -Boris
>
>