- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 18:01:02 +0200
- To: www-style@w3.org
fantasai wrote:
>
> Since Hixie brought to my attention the problem of making CSS tabs
> http://fantasai.inkedblade.net/style/design/tabs
> I wrote a proposal for handling the basic layout geometry through the
> 'display' property:
> http://fantasai.inkedblade.net/style/specs/tabs
To clarify the justification for this -
Tabs are different from existing CSS formatting types.
- They size and wrap into lines like inline blocks.
- They stretch and vertical-align like tables.
- They do margin collapsing like neither.
Some use cases:
navigation atop http://www.alistapart.com/
links at the bottom of http://fantasai.inkedblade.net/weblog/
(Right now the margins are hard-coded to be wide; they should
shrink instead of forcing the content to wrap when the window
gets narrow.)
tabs at the top of http://www.whatwg.org/
spaced links atop http://www.opera.com/
tabs at http://www.xml.com/
horizontal link bar on http://www.oasis-open.org/
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Received on Monday, 16 August 2004 16:00:56 UTC