Re: collapsible property

On 2010-02-11 10:00 PM, Patrick Garies wrote:
> (A bit late since SMTP is blocked at school.)
>
> On 2/10/2010 11:43 PM, Daniel Danilatos wrote:
>> Inferring orthogonal behaviour from line height or similar
>> properties seems kinda hacky and potentially leading to all kinds
>> of corner cases. I think it's clearer and simpler to have a
>> property that defines exactly the desired behaviour (keep the block
>> element open) and leave things like line height and min height to
>> their independent meanings, without having to complicate them with
>> extended interpretations
>
> Maybe I'm misunderstanding the issue.
>
> You seem to want an element--when it (A) is empty or (B) all of its
> child elements are empty or (C) all it contains is whitespace--to
> remain one line tall rather than "collapse" to a height of zero when
> it has no content. If this is actually what you want, then all you're
> trying to do is control the presentation of the element's height; I
> don't see how this is "orthogo

Oops. Looks like I sent an incomplete auto-saved draft instead of the 
complete copy in my Outbox that failed to send. Just sent that one now.

Received on Friday, 12 February 2010 06:39:38 UTC