- From: Alex Mogilevsky <alexmog@microsoft.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 18:37:01 +0000
- To: David Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com>, Bert Bos <bert@w3.org>
- CC: "www-style@w3.org list" <www-style@w3.org>
> -----Original Message----- > From: www-style-request@w3.org [mailto:www-style-request@w3.org] On > Behalf Of David Hyatt > Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 10:42 AM > >> > >> (3) Can the column-span element be an inline? I'm inclined to say > >> that it has to be a block-level element. It seems weird to me to > >> break an inline out of flow like that (that could possibly span > >> multiple lines). You'd have to at the very least make an anonymous > >> block to wrap the inline anyway. > > > > It obviously has to be block-level, but that leaves two possibilities: > > > > - 'column-span <> 1' *makes* the element into a block, or > > - 'column-span' only *applies* to block-level elements. > > > > The second seems by far the easiest to understand and is sufficient, I > > think. > > > > I prefer the second also. What happens when 'column-span:all' is applied to an image (which is not a block by default)? It doesn't seem reasonable to require 'display:block' for that to work. It seems 'column-span' is more like 'float' than like 'width' and should make the target element into a block.
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