- From: L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 17:21:11 -0700
- To: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
- Cc: David Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Thursday 2010-10-21 17:09 -0700, Brad Kemper wrote:
> Is there any particular downside to treating them like the same
> property, as though margin-start was just a 1-component shorthand
> for margin-left?
You don't know which side margin-start is until you know which
element the rule applies to and what that element's direction is.
So you have to store it differently.
For example, in:
ul { margin-start: 3em }
ul#foo { direction: ltr }
ul#bar { direction: rtl }
the margin-start is sometimes margin-left and sometimes
margin-right.
> I had kind of assumed that the effect on margin-left in the
> example would the same whether you used 'margin-start' or just
> 'margin' (ignoring, for the moment the effect of 'margin' on
> 'margin-right', etc.).
One could change the example to manipulate a style rule in a style
sheet rather than a style attribute, and thus have the same problem
as what I gave above.
-David
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