- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:43:26 +0200
- To: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Cc: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>, robert@ocallahan.org, www-style@w3.org
Also sprach fantasai:
> > > I also think that content should be able to overflow the column
> > > box, e.g. if we have a height-constrained column, then content
> > > that is too tall should overflow the column box (and thus be taller
> > > than the column rule).
> >
> > So, you're saying that the column box will never stick outside the
> > content box of the multicol element? This is what the current spec
> > dictates, but one that Robert disagrees with, I believe.
>
> Not necessarily. You could define, for example, that balancing columns
> causes the column boxes to match the balanced height of the contents,
> whether that height is more or less than the height of the multicol box.
Let's see. Consider this pseudo-markup:
<div class=height-constrained-multicol>.... <img class=tall> ....</div>
Are you saying that the height of the column boxes will depend on the
value of the 'column-fill'? So that, 'column-fill: balance' makes them
taller than the multicol box and 'column-fill: auto' makes them as
tall as the multicol box?
That doesn't make much sense to me, so you must be thinking of
something else :)
> > If we chose this option, I also think we should specify that wide rules
> > will be clipped by the content box, and that rules entirely outside
> > the content box should not be drawn.
>
> Rules entirely outside the content box should be clipped iff overflow
> so dictates. Otherwise you could have a height-constrained element with
> overflowing columns marching off to the right, but the rules between
> them mysteriously disappear.
Yes. But the background color, if set on the multicol element, will
also disappear.
-h&kon
Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª
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Received on Wednesday, 18 August 2010 17:44:12 UTC