Re: Should 'display: none' be handled by 'visibility'?

• From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
• Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:28:10 -0500
• To: Andrew Fedoniouk <news@terrainformatica.com>
• CC: Markus Jonsson <carnaby@passagen.se>, www-style@w3.org
• Message-ID: <46AA393A.3010001@mit.edu>

Andrew Fedoniouk wrote:
> I think that it makes sense to redefine rendering behavior of 
> visibility: collapse
> and give it exactly the same meaning as display:none.

Except that they have different effects, even on internal table elements.  Other 
than that minor detail, no problem.

Note that the ostensible use case of visibility:collapse on internal table 
elements _is_ a use case we want to meet and is not really covered by display:none.

-Boris

Received on Friday, 27 July 2007 18:28:51 UTC