- From: James Jeffery <cascadingstylez@googlemail.com>
- Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 10:28:14 +0000
Morning all. Im not sure if this is already a recommendation, or its already been thought about, but here goes. Basically i was working on a task, a 2 column layout simple as anything, heres the css: body {width: 50em;} div#mainNav {width: 10em;} div#content {width: 40em;} Now if i want to add a border, say 1pixel all around, i have to convert 1px to an em unit and minus that from the width values (n-40em), then add 1px border all around. It would take me a few seconds on the calculator, i know, but would it not be easier to have something like?: body {width: 50em;} div#mainNav {width: (10em - 1px);} div#content {width: (40em - 1px);} #mainNav, #content {border: red 1px solid;} I mean im sure there would be great use for it on larger and different tasks, the example i provided was very simple. Basically the algorithm would automatically be able to convert between px, em, % etc. Just an idea, and im looking forward to any comments. Kind Regards. James Jeffery -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20080205/7d30e9ca/attachment.htm>
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