- From: Bert Bos <bert@w3.org>
- Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2002 02:34:01 +0200
- To: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Saturday 07 September 2002 06:05, Coises wrote:
> How about adding two pseudo-classes, ":odd-page" and ":even-page"?
[...]
> I think this could be far more flexible than anything yet discussed.
Yes, it is flexible, but (as you pointed out), it also has some
problems: certain properties ('display', 'position', 'float',
'page-break-inside', 'page-break-before'...) cannot depend on the page.
Maybe we need neither new properties nor new selectors; a handful of
values might do all we need in practice.
Looking at the books on my shelves, I see differences in page margins,
page number positions and similar things, which all can be handled
through @page:left/@page:right. I also see images floating left or
right, depending on the page side, for which we can add 'float:
outside' and 'float: inside'. That's basically it. I can imagine some
playful layout that has headings aligned differently (although I don't
remember having seen it in practice), which could be handled by adding
'inside' and 'outside' to 'text-align'.
Where the layout is more complex than this, the two pages appear to have
been designed as a single, 2-page spread. In theory, we have that
capability already in CSS2, via named pages.
Bert
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