- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 14:12:19 -0700
- To: Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>
- Cc: whatwg <whatwg@whatwg.org>, David Bruant <bruant.d@gmail.com>
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 7:32 AM, Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org> wrote: > It's too bad that display-box also has multiple uses--it doesn't only > display or hide the content, it has a third "contents" mode. That means > the same problem would happen as soon as you set "display-box: contents" on > something--it would override [hidden]. What we really need is a CSS > property that only sets whether the element is visible or not and nothing > else, like "visible: false". That way, the only way [hidden] gets > overridden is if you're actually setting the visibility style. Mind bringing this up in www-style? My thinking in that design is that display-box controls whether an element generates boxes at all, which seems consistent with including the 'contents' value. But if it seems useful to have a property dedicated to literally just hiding the element, we can see about rejiggering things. ~TJ
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