Re: [css3-multicol] column-span property

Hi,

On 2009-05-18 Alex Mogilevsky wrote:
> Column-span prevously allowed values other than '1' and 'all' but it was
> scaled down because of added  complexity of cases where span has more
> columns than available.
>
> IMO the property in its current form is unnecessary. All use cases I can
> think of are covered by either page floats in GCPM or nested multicolumn
> elements.

Maybe I missed something about CSS3. I couldn't find how to do this:

abc def gh ij k    yz abc def ghij
lm n opq rst uv    kl mnop q r stu
wxy zab +----------------+ v wxy z
cd efgh |                | ab de f
ijk lmn | something else | ghi jkl
opqr st |                | mn opqr
v wxyza +----------------+ stuvw x
bcd ef ghij klm    yz abc def g hi
no pq rstu vw x    jklmn o p qr st

A multicolumn layout where columns flow aronud something which is placed 
relative to columns and spans columns across the gap.

Because I couldn't find that, I thought I'd suggest this. Maybe I missed 
something about page floats which is able to do that?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: www-style-request@w3.org [mailto:www-style-request@w3.org] On Behalf
> Of Christian Hujer Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2009 7:00 AM
> To: www-style@w3.org
> Subject: [css3-multicol] column-span property
>
> Hello community,
>
>
> [CSS3COL] specifies a new property column-span to have a static,
> non-floating element span multiple columns. I would like to see the
> capabilities of column-span extended to:
> * Be allowed for floating boxes and maybe others as well if applicable.
> * Allow percentages.
>
> If a floating box has its column-span property set, the column-span
> property specifies how many columns the floating box should span. For a
> floating box, either the width or the column-span property can be set. If
> both are set, the column-span property takes precedence. The column-span
> property is an alternative way to set the width taking the size of the
> column-gap into account. The effective width calculated on the base of the
> column-span is: width := column-span * column-width + floor(left +
> column-span / 100%) * column-gap.
>
> Examples:
> * A float with left:0%; and column-span:200%; should span two columns
> including the gap between them. * A float with left:50%; and
> column-span:200%; should span three columns, starting in the middle of the
> first of those three and ending in the middle of the last of those three,
> including two gaps between them.
>
>
> References:
> [CSS3COL] <http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-css3-multicol-20070606/>
>
>
> Kind regards
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