- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 07:49:52 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Hugh Guiney <hugh.guiney@gmail.com>, Scott Johnson <sjohnson@mozilla.com>
- Cc: whatwg <whatwg@lists.whatwg.org>
On Wed, 26 Sep 2012, Hugh Guiney wrote: > > My use case: I have a <div> with overflow: hidden that contains slides > as part of a JavaScript carousel. It has to be overflow: hidden because > otherwise the unseen slides are visible/stretch the page. And because > each slide is different, the containing <div> therefore needs to > grow/shrink in height depending on the content currently being > displayed. This is trivial enough to do, by changing the height to match > its contents whenever a slide change occurs, or a resize or > orientationchange event is fired, but currently if I increase or > decrease the font size, the content can get cut off, or there will be a > ton of extra white space, since the <div> height is out of sync with the > height of its contents. This could be easily remedied with a fontresize > (or textresize) event. This sounds more like a rendering-time feature, so I would recommend approaching the CSS working group at www-style@w3.org with the idea. (The WHATWG specs currently don't cover this area of the Web platform.) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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