Re: [CSS3] 'outline' shorthand property

Of course Dave, but as I read it proposed outline-width _must_ be 
specified for offset to be included, and offset _must_ always follow 
outline-width to be acheived.

~Justin Wood (Callek)

David Hyatt wrote:

>
> You can't disambiguate width and offset, since they can both (for 
> example) be pixel values.  In general the values of a shorthand need 
> to be distinguishable, so that it's always clear which property each 
> value in the shorthand represents.
>
> dave
> (hyatt@apple.com)
>
> On Dec 27, 2004, at 12:10 PM, Andrew Fedoniouk wrote:
>
>>
>> Currently  'outline' shorthand property defined [1] as
>> [ <'outline-color'> || <'outline-style'> || <'outline-width'> ] | 
>> inherit
>>
>> This definition does not include 'outline-offset'.
>>
>> I propose to define it as:
>>
>> [ <'outline-color'> || <'outline-style'> || <'outline-width'> [
>> <'outline-offset'> ]?  ] | inherit
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Andrew Fedoniouk
>> http://terrainformatica.com
>>
>> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/CR-css3-ui-20040511/#outline
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>

Received on Monday, 27 December 2004 21:02:13 UTC