Re: [cssom] CSS Value API

To be logical, we should modify margin-top to calc(15%+1px).
Or is that no more allowed by CSS-Values?

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From: "Anne van Kesteren" <annevk@opera.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 5:21 PM
To: "Boris Zbarsky" <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
Cc: <www-style@w3.org>
Subject: Re: [cssom] CSS Value API

> On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:34:35 +0200, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> 
> wrote:
>> On 4/7/10 5:08 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>>> The idea is that it sets the first value of the shorthand
>>
>> That's fine.  My specific question is:
>>
>>    <div id="x" style="margin-top: 15%">
>>    <script>
>>      document.getElementById("x").style.margin.l[0].px++;
>>      // What just happened in the line above?
>>    </script>
>
> I think in this case you cannot convert and it would either throw or set 
> the pixel value to 1. Not sure which way is better.
>
> Your example makes me wonder though how shorthand and individual 
> properties should interact. Maybe 'margin' should be a map and we should 
> not try to recreate syntax-level features at the CSSOM-level. Now I 
> phrased it like this I wonder why I ever thought otherwise. :-) I.e. the 
> above would become style.margin.m.top.px++. We could even have 
> margin.m.all.px++ or something to increase all individual properties if we 
> ever wanted to simplify that.
>
>
> -- 
> Anne van Kesteren
> http://annevankesteren.nl/
>

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