Re: [CSS21] visibility: collapse on non-table elements

On Thursday 2008-02-14 02:03 -0800, fantasai wrote:
> Specifically, block-level elements with "visibility: collapse" should behave as
> if their box was zero height with zero vertical padding, border width, and margins,
> and inline-level elements with "visibility: collapse" should behave as if their
> box was zero width with zero horizontal padding, border width, and margins.
> Furthermore all descendants of a non-internal-table-element with "visibility:
> collapse"--including descendants that are anonymous boxes--are also treated as
> if they had "visibility: collapse".

Is there a compelling use case for this?  Do authors want it for
some reason?  It's a good bit of work to implement, and it's not
worth doing that work just to make the property semantics more
aesthetically pleasing to spec designers.

-David

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Received on Thursday, 14 February 2008 11:03:46 UTC