- From: Brian Sexton <discussion-w3c@ididnotoptin.com>
- Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 12:36:06 -0800
- To: "Anne van Kesteren" <fora@annevankesteren.nl>
- Cc: "www-style" <www-style@w3.org>
Anne, > The only reason I can see is for the "borders" of an area. However, we > could use 'border-image' or a similar property to do that. > You could also use '::before' and '::after', though some W3C Members > think you are abusing the selectors if you use them for a top and bottom > background image. > I don't really see a reason to introduce this new feature. Multiple border images would be nice--that would make it easier to have fluid widths with custom border images--but another advantage could be corners. For example, it would be nice to be able to have a style definition that adds rounded corner images to text box backgrounds; that seems to me like it would be a better use of CSS than tacking on rounded-corner strip graphics before and after text boxes, which could result in the appearance of different text box padding when some browsers do not support ::before and ::after (the top and bottom padding would be less than actually desired to make up for the image heights). Kind regards, Brian Sexton
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