- From: Web Master <thelawnet@yahoo.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 10:32:02 -0700 (PDT)
- To: www-style <www-style@w3.org>
I don't think I made it clear quite how important column-span: auto is: In a CSS environment, the width of the viewport is unknown. However, replaced elements have a known width. Consider: <div style="columns: 4"> <img style="column-span: 2; width: auto"> </div> Where the IMG's intrinsic width is 300 px. If the viewport < 600px wide, the element WOULD NOT SPAN CORRECTLY, either (depending on the final details of the column specification) causing unsightly overlapping or else causing the columns to be resized, again highly unsightly. Whereas: <div style="columns: 4"> <img style="column-span: auto; width: auto"> <!-- Both width: auto and column-span: auto are implied, and we could omit them --> </div> This would cause the image to span as many columns as is necessary, and the text would all flow round it nicely :-). > (What _will_ happen is that text in the > next column will > overwrite the overflowing replaced element.) How wonderful! ===== __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
Received on Thursday, 21 October 1999 13:31:02 UTC