Re: [css3-content] Replacing ::outside with ::inside

2009/4/12 François REMY <fremycompany_pub@yahoo.fr>:
> ::outside can be useful in other case that you
> don't have mentioned.
>
> You look at ::outside only from the border/margin
> point of view, but it can have many other useful
> things.
>
> With ::outside, you can perform a break outside the
> element (useful if you want to have an element on a
> new line but doesn't contains the line break).
>
> * First sample :
>   <myElem>Hello</myElem>
>   myElem::outside::before { content: '\A'; }
>
> Is rendered like :
>   <br/><myElem>Hello</myElem>
>
> * Second sample :
>   <myElem>Hello</myElem>
>   myElem::before { content: '\A'; }
>
> Is rendered like :
>   <myElem><br/>Hello</myElem>
>
> * Last sample :
>   <myElem>Hello</myElem>
>   myElem::inside::before { content: '\A'; }
>
> Is rendered like :
>   <myElem><br/>Hello</myElem>

You think in terms of elements, not of boxes. If all properties are
moved from "myElem" to "myElem::inside", then the visible effect of
"myElem::before" is the same of "myElem::outside::before" with
properties on "myElem".

> If you have something like that :
>
>   <box display-model="ab">
>       <div display-role="a"></div>
>       <div display-role="b"></div>
>   </box>
>
> And a CSS like that :
>   div[display-role="a"]::outside {
>       margin: 10px;
>   }
>
> It's rendered the same way as :
>
>   <box display-model="ab">
>       <div display="block"><div display-role="a"></div></div>
>       <div display-role="b"></div>
>   </box>
>
> The display role of the 'inner' div is no more applyable (I think), so it's
> not in the display-model of the box element.
> But it seems the spec of display-model is unclear about how the UA must
> react if an element in a display-model'ed
> element contains elements that does'nt enter in the model. But it's not a
> problem of '::outside'.

What? You're mixing XSL:FO (attributes as properties), Template Layout
(slots), display-model...

> Regards,
> Fremy
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Giovanni Campagna" <scampa.giovanni@gmail.com>
> Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2009 7:39 PM
> To: "www-style" <www-style@w3.org>
> Subject: [css3-content] Replacing ::outside with ::inside
>
>> -- background --
>> This proposal crossed my mind while talking with Tab Atkins about
>> ::slot in Template Layout. He wanted to allow margins, and to make
>> those margins not collapse (sort of "box-sizing:margin-box"). I didn't
>> like the idea, but I did think that allowing some space between
>> adjacient slots and their borders may be useful. But I thought that
>> this kind of space is not a margin, but rather a padding (because it
>> is all around the box and doesn't collapse).
>> Ok then, how to specify an external padding? You need two boxes, one
>> inside the other.
>> I said to myself: I need the Generated Content features... but what
>> does ::slot()::outside mean? How shall I specify "display:slot"?
>> This didn't look very good to me
>>
>> -- the current situation --
>> The Generated and Replaced Content Module introduces the ::outside
>> pseudo-elements, which wraps its superior parent and all its (in flow)
>> content. This pseudo-element is not implemented in any UA I tested. In
>> addition, it creates a lot of difficulty on the author side, because
>> the wrapping generated box still inherits (like every other
>> pseudo-element) from its superior parent.
>>
>> -- my proposal --
>> Drop ::outside.
>> Add ::inside, a pseudo-element wrapping all superior parent's content
>> (but not ::before, ::after, ::alternate or other pseudo-elements). All
>> properties apply to this pseudo-element (but their meaning is changed,
>> because it is inside its superior parent like a nested <div>)
>> This way, to add multiple borders to an element, you say:
>> .multiple {
>> border:1px solid yellow;
>> }
>> .multiple::inside {
>> border:1px solid blue;
>> }
>> .multiple::inside::inside {
>> border:1px solid red;
>> }
>>
>> We may introduce the syntax shorthand "::inside(n)".
>> Not generated ::inside elements are removed, ie if ::inside::inside is
>> never referenced, ::inside::inside::inside is the same as
>> ::inside::inside.
>>
>> -- use cases --
>> All of ::outside, plus those case when an appropriate ::outside is not
>> available, like for example ::slot.
>>
>> Giovanni
>>
>

Received on Sunday, 12 April 2009 16:45:00 UTC