- From: Bert Bos <bert@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:33:30 +0200
- To: www-style@w3.org
On Thursday 17 July 2008 02:04, fantasai wrote:
> Andrew Fedoniouk wrote:
> > Michael A. Puls II wrote:
> >> Problem: Make an iframe or object's height expand to the height of
> >> its content
> >
> > .....
> >
> > David Baron proposed once to use 'max-intrinsic' and
> > '[min-]intrinsic' values for length units.
> >
> > frame
> > {
> > overflow: hidden;
> > min-width: min-intrinsic; /* so will never overflow in x
> > direction */ height: intrinsic; /* and neither do in vertical */
> > }
> >
> > p
> > {
> > width: max-intrinsic; /* will never wrap */
> > }
>
> The WG accepted to use those keywords in the next Box Module draft.
>
> http://www.w3.org/blog/CSS/2007/11/14/resolutions_3
>
> I don't think we discussed behavior for replaced elements such as
> <iframe>s though.
No, and we also didn't define them for heights, only widths. But I'd
like them to be defined (as I said in another thread last Friday).
It's not so difficult (at least in principle, writing it up clearly and
precisely is going to be a challenge :-) ). First of all, unlike
for 'width' there is no difference between the three keywords
('min-content', 'max-content' and 'available') when used on 'height'.
Secondly, for replaced elements with an intrinsic ratio, they simply
mean the same as 'auto'. Finally, for replaced elements without an
intrinsic ratio, they do *not* mean the same as 'auto' (because 'auto'
already means 150px), but they basically mean the height of the thing
if it were displayed in a window of its own with the width as given.
In fact, "without an intrinsic ratio" is not completely correct. There
are replaced elements with a "complex" intrinsic ratio and those
without any ratio at all. An example of the former is HTML: given a
width, it has a definite height, but the function that relates the
height to the width is not linear. An example of the latter is an
infinitely scalable graphic: for any given width it can have any given
height and there is no way to tell what the right height is. In such a
case I guess we fall back to 150px again.
Bert
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