- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:08:20 -0700
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- CC: David Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com>, "www-style@w3.org list" <www-style@w3.org>
Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > >> (2) The ability to specify bounding-box coverage for backgrounds. >> - My proposal here is to scrap this feature. >> - I do not see a use case for placing a background into the bounding >> box. That just seems like it would give unusual results for both inlines >> and columns. Columns broken across pages would be even stranger. > > I definitely see the use for this ability, but it's nothing that can't > be done by putting a background on a container element instead. I'd Putting a background on the container element would get you a very different effect. The bounding-box effect is similar to the tables example here: http://fantasai.inkedblade.net/style/discuss/table-backgrounds/edge.gif Imagine we just have the first row, and each box is a column rather than a table cell. Here's the concept rendering for that image: http://fantasai.inkedblade.net/style/discuss/table-backgrounds/edge-d.gif What bounding-box does is draw a rectangle that includes all pieces of the element--without moving those pieces around--and then clips out the parts of the background that are needed to inside the element's boxes. You can see some interesting effects with gradients. See http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009Apr/0131.html ~fantasai
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