- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:42:41 -0700
- To: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com> wrote:
> To ensure that alignment can be achieved, a new value on
> 'line-box-contain' property is proposed: ''gap''. The value means that
> the height of the line in which the element occurs should be rounded
> up to the smallest multiple of the used ‘line-height’ value on the
> containing block. In this example, the stacking height of div.figure
> would be 30px (2 * 15px):
>
> div.multicol {
> line-height: 15px;
> }
> div.figure {
> height: 20px;
> line-box-contain: block inline replaced gap;
> }
>
> There may be better names for this value, perhaps, ''crack'',
> ''snap'', ''snap-gap'', ''void'', ''grid'', ''snap-to-grid''?
I definitely agree with the use-case. Not happy with "gap", because
it's completely unclear what the gap is. I'd say that "grid" sounds
good, but I don't know if we'd want to reserve that for combination
with Grid Positioning. 'line-grid'?
~TJ
Received on Thursday, 12 August 2010 00:43:34 UTC