- From: William M. Perry <wmperry@aventail.com>
- Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 20:31:16 -0800
- To: "Joel N. Weber II" <nemo@koa.iolani.honolulu.hi.us>
- Cc: www-style@www10.w3.org
Joel N. Weber, II writes:
>I'd like to be able to specify <br> within CSS1.
>
>I think it could be done as
>
>br { width: remaining }
>
>(A few other properties would have to be added as well, I think.)
>
>`remaining' would simply mean that it would take up all of the space left
>in the line, but no more.
>
>We could alternatively define `remaining' to take a factor, such that
>`1remaining' would be adaquate for <br>, and `.5remaining' could be used
>to eat half the space remaining on the line. However, I can't think of
>why this would be useful.
Currently, Emacs-W3 uses "br { display: line; }" to encode <br> in the
default stylesheet. This is a holdover from an old draft of CSS when
'display' was slated for level 2. Not sure why it was removed. Bert?
Hakon?
-Bp
Received on Saturday, 11 January 1997 23:27:48 UTC