- From: Andrew Fedoniouk <news@terrainformatica.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:13:47 -0700
- To: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
- CC: Bert Bos <bert@w3.org>, www-style@w3.org
Brad Kemper wrote: > > On Sep 15, 2009, at 11:21 PM, Andrew Fedoniouk wrote: > >> That if I understand properly what that "fit and then >> shrink more" idea actually means. > > I understood it to mean: Make the text box as big as you can without > overflowing its parent container. This determines where the text wraps. > Then shrink the width of the box as much as you can without having to > re-wrap the text. > Ah, that... So this is about something like width:content-outline-width If yes then how to calculate layout of, let's say, this: <p style="width:content-outline-width; float:left">sigma gamma</p> <p style="width:content-outline-width; float:left">epsilon theta</p> ? Such things are in principle possible only with flex units as their calculation happens *after* layout computation using other constraints. So this width:*; max-width:content-outline-width; will expand the element to fit with the constraint. Even more: content-outline-width value is available *only* at the moment of flex computations. -- Andrew Fedoniouk. http://terrainformatica.com
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