- From: Hakon Lie <howcome@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 16:32:45 +0100 (MET)
- To: Andrew n marshall <amarshal@usc.edu>
- Cc: "'www-style@w3.org'" <www-style@w3.org>
Andrew n marshall writes: > I would like to see visibility split into two properties: > 'horizontal-visibility' and 'vertical-visibility' (with the possibility of > leaving in the current property as a shortcut). With these, an author can > make an element not visible, but still have a presence "felt" in the layout > in a particular direction. > > A good use of this is a tree control (like those on ms.com's sidebar) whose > width is guaranteed not to change as branches are dynamically hidden and > shown (therefore avoiding nasty reformatting artifacts/flickers). I'm catching up on www-style and the above message seems to be referred to several times. I see the need for avoiding reflows, but doesn't the 'width' property of CSS1 cover this case? E.g. you can explicitly set the width of the element: DIV { width: 10em } Further, the proposed 'min-width' and 'max-width' allows the designer to set more constraints. Do you have an example which isn't covered by these? -h&kon H å k o n W i u m L i e howcome@w3.org http://www.w3.org/people/howcome World W i d e Web Consortium
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