Re: collapsible property

On 02/10/2010 04:36 PM, Ojan Vafai wrote:
> Collapsed block nodes make little sense when dealing with rich-text
> user-generated content. Rich-text libraries need to go through all sorts
> of contortions right now in performance sensitive code to get around
> this. Browser's themselves do things to avoid collapsing nodes (e.g.
> putting magic BRs in empty block elements). These workarounds are costly
> and don't always work.
>
> Proposal: Add a collapsible property. Defaults to "auto".
> auto: the current behavior of collapsing block elements when they are empty
> never: empty elements don't collapse.
>
> p {
>    collapsible: never;
> }

Hi Ojan,

Are you referring to margin collapsing or to something else?

~fantasai