- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 17:22:23 +0200
- To: Alex Mogilevsky <alexmog@microsoft.com>
- Cc: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>, Chris Jones <cjon@microsoft.com>
Alex Mogilevsky wrote:
> If the height of a multi-column container is explicitly specified,
> then the column-fill: balance property is ignored in current
> implementations. The current spec doesn't seem to say anything on
> this. Can we get it specified?
Hmm. I don't see why columns shouldn't be balanced when the height is
set.
Also, Prince balances the columns. Here's your test case along with
Prince' rendition:
http://people.opera.com/howcome/2010/tests/column-balance.html
http://people.opera.com/howcome/2010/tests/column-balance.pdf
Also, in paged media the height of the container is constrained (by
the page, if not explicityly limited). We certainly want to balance
columns on the last page, no?
> In my opinion, disabling balancing with fixed columns is somewhat
> easier to implement, but it is a case of property side effect that
> we generally tend to avoid.
Agreed.
-h&kon
Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª
howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
Received on Monday, 9 August 2010 15:23:01 UTC