- From: Hakon Lie <howcome@www10.w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 21:35:16 +0100 (MET)
- To: Ka-Ping Yee <kryee@wheat.uwaterloo.ca>
- Cc: www-style@www10.w3.org
Ka-Ping Yee writes: > From a quick look at the draft, i see that all the elements > may be positioned relative to the top-left corner of the > parent, but not to the bottom or right. What if one wants > to place an element (say, a menu) exactly two inches wide > along the right edge of the window? > The most obvious solution is to allow "right" and "bottom" > properties Yup, your example could become: LI.menu { width: 2in; right: 5% } > I think it's reasonable > to ask people not to put these values in conflict. We will need a conflict resolution policy, but CSS already has several of these. E.g., if you overconstrain the metrics of an element: #foo { width: 10px; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0 } .. the CSS1 spec says that 'margin-right' will be set to 'auto' [1]. [1] http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/TR/REC-CSS1#horizontal-formatting Thanks for your suggestions, -h&kon H å k o n W i u m L i e howcome@w3.org W o r l d Wide W e b Consortium inria §°þ#¡ª FRANCE http://www.w3.org/people/howcome
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