- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 16:23:13 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Jonas Dinesen <dinesen@itu.dk>
- Cc: "whatwg@whatwg.org" <whatwg@whatwg.org>
On Tue, 8 Jan 2013, Jonas Dinesen wrote:
>
> Is it possible to set a registration point to svg objects and canvas
> drawings, like Flash can do it? A regsitration point should make it
> possible for an element to increase or decrease its height and width in
> all directions.
>
> If fx, a registration point is set at the bottom to the left, the
> element will increase its height upwards and its width to the left. As
> it is now, elements will increase height downwards by default.
>
> From my point of view it would be a really nice feature, but does the
> option exist or are there any plans of implementing it?
You can do this with anything in HTML, using absolute positioning: set
just one of the coordinates in each direction, and leave the other on
'auto'. As in:
div { position: absolute: bottom: 10em; right: 10em; width: auto;
height: auto; left; auto; top: auto; margin: 0; }
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