- From: Aux <aux@hexmode.org>
- Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 08:13:56 +0300
width="*" in tables means that this cell will take all possible width. There is no AFAIK such attr in CSS. Brenton Strine wrote: > I don't think that code works. I can't get it to. At > least, if it does, it is extremely fragile and breaks if > everything else isn't set exactly right. > > Is there an equivelant of the "*" in CSS? I don't think > there is. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: whatwg-bounces at lists.whatwg.org > [mailto:whatwg-bounces at lists.whatwg.org] On Behalf Of Aux > Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 12:35 AM > To: whatwg at lists.whatwg.org > Subject: Re: [whatwg] Suggestion for new > element/attribute > > This code works fine. The only thing is to move * width > into CSS. > > <table> > <tr> > <td> > <div>blablabla</div> > . . . > </td> > <td width="*"> </td> > </tr> > </table> > > Brenton Strine wrote: > >> Consider this case: >> >> You have a table one row high with two cells. It's >> > width is 100%. > >> You want the width of the left cell to be only as big >> > as the content, > >> and you want the right cell to take up all the rest of >> > the space. > >> However, the amount of content in both the right and >> > the left cell > >> changes, so you can't give a percent or a pixel width. >> >> In that situation, you could either 1) intentionally >> > give the right > >> cell an incorrect width of 100%, or 2) put a whole lot >> > of invisible > >> text in it, so that the cell always expands enough to >> > make the left > >> cell only the minimum size needed. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis >> [mailto:bhawkeslewis at googlemail.com] >> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 3:44 PM >> To: Brenton Strine >> Cc: whatwg at lists.whatwg.org >> Subject: Re: [whatwg] Suggestion for new >> > element/attribute > >> This sounds very much like something that should be >> > done in CSS, not > >> HTML. But can you explain what you mean by "expand ... >> > as if it were > >> full of text"? If something is already a given size, >> > then filling it > >> with text should not make it expand. >> >> -- >> Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis >> >> Brenton Strine wrote: >> >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I am new here, so please let me know if I am doing >>> > anything out of > >>> order. >>> >>> I would like to make a suggestion for soemthing I want >>> >>> >> to >> >> >>> see in HTML5. >>> >>> I call it the inflate tag. <inflate>. >>> >>> The purpose of this tag is to expand that which >>> >>> >> contains >> >> >>> it as if it were full of text. I have seen many >>> >>> >> websites >> >> >>> where the designers were forced to put long strings of >>> > hidden text > >>> into a cell in order to make it expand correctly. Thus >>> > text browsers > >>> find strange segments >>> >>> >> like >> >> >>> this: >>> >>> w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w >>> > w > >>> >>> >> w >> >> >>> w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w >>> > w > >>> >>> >> w >> >> >>> w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w >>> > w > >>> >>> >> w >> >> >>> w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w >>> > w > >>> >>> >> w >> >> >>> w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w >>> > w > >>> >>> >> w >> >> >>> w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w >>> > w > >>> >>> >> w >> >> >>> w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w >>> > w > >>> >>> >> w >> >> >>> w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w >>> > w > >>> >>> >> w >> >> >>> w w w w w w w w >>> >>> Of course, developers already have the ability to >>> >>> >> specify >> >> >>> the width in terms of pixels, ems, percent, and tons >>> > of other stuff. > >>> But there are times, particularly in fluid design, >>> > when you can't get > >>> the div to work the way you want without text to >>> > expand it. > >>> This could even be an attribute rather than a tag: >>> width="inflate". >>> >>> Brenton >>> >>> >>> >> >> > >
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