- From: David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net>
- Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 09:39:20 -0800
- To: "Hakon Lie" <howcome@w3.org>
- Cc: "Chris Josephs" <cpj1@visi.com>, "Style" <www-style@w3.org>
Hakon Lie wrote:
> We discussed the use of the term "gutter" in this context. While this
> proposal uses the word "gutter" in the description, the term is not
> used in the CSS syntax. We should remove "gutter" entirely in the
next
> revision.
For the sake of consistency and greater control, how about
'column-margin' and 'column-padding'?
Moving across two columns, the sequence would be:
margin, border, padding, column one, column-padding, column-margin,
column-rule, column-margin, column-padding, column two, padding,
border, margin
With a column-margin, background will not appear in the margin and any
border will encompass each column:
+-----------------------------------------+
| +--------------+ +--------------+ |
| | column one | | | column two | |
| | column one | | | column two | |
| | column one | | | column two | |
/ | \ |
/ rule \ border
column- column-
margin padding
With only column-padding, background will extend across columns and a
border will encompass all:
+-----------------------------------+
| +-----------------------------+ |
| | column one | column two | |
| | column one | column two | |
| | column one | column two | |
| \ |
rule \ border
column-
padding
David Perrell
Received on Monday, 4 November 1996 12:42:33 UTC