Re: Suggestion: A new text attribute to scale the size of text to follow the size of a box

All right. Wasn't aware of this property.

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From: "Brad Kemper" <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 7:49 PM
To: "François REMY" <fremycompany_pub@yahoo.fr>
Cc: "Gabriel Zackari" <gabriel.zackari@gmail.com>; <www-style@w3.org>
Subject: Re: Suggestion: A new text attribute to scale the size of text to 
follow  	the size of a box

> That is already covered by this:
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-css3-text-20070306/#text-align-last
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> On Apr 29, 2010, at 10:34 AM, François REMY wrote:
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>> Another implementation would be "text-align: fill".
>> This would only distribute space between chars
>> as if "text-align: justify;" was used, but it would dis-
>> tribute it even when the line is'nt ended.
>>
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>> From: "Brad Kemper" <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 6:53 PM
>> To: "Gabriel Zackari" <gabriel.zackari@gmail.com>
>> Cc: <www-style@w3.org>
>> Subject: Re: Suggestion: A new text attribute to scale the size of text 
>> to follow  the size of a box
>>
>>> I think I would call this 'font-size: auto', where 'auto' meant that 
>>> largest size possible without breaking (except where explicitly broken 
>>> by, say, a <BR> or by 'white-space: pre') and without overflowing. Most 
>>> of the time this would be a horizontal constraint, but a fixed height 
>>> could also constrain it. It would also mean there was no difference 
>>> between 'whte-space:normal' and 'white-space:nowrap', and 
>>> 'text-overflow' would never kick in.
>>>
>>>
>>> Of course, 'font-size' is inheritable, so the author would need to take 
>>> care with spans and such inside such a line, and set those children to 
>>> 'font-size:1em' or 'font-size:100%'.
>>>
>>> On Apr 29, 2010, at 7:14 AM, Gabriel Zackari wrote:
>>>
>>>> I´m not sure this is the right place to suggest new CSS attributes if 
>>>> not please excuse me:
>>>>
>>>> What I would like is an attribute that makes a text allways fill keep 
>>>> the same size as that of the box its in.
>>>>
>>>> Today its possible to have an image stretch with the size of a box but 
>>>> not text that is place in the box, its allways static. However text is 
>>>> rendered from vector so
>>>> it should be possible to make its follow the size of another object.
>>>>
>>>> So if the size of the box is made smaller the text size would 
>>>> automatically adjust and would not overflow and having to be hidden.
>>>> And if the size of the box is bigger the size of the text will fit and 
>>>> you would not have to go back and perhaps create a new css style to 
>>>> adjust the size of the text.
>>>>
>>>> Example of use:
>>>>
>>>> Very useful when making buttons of different sizes.
>>>> The text would allways keep to the size of the button.
>>>>
>>>> Regards Gabriel
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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