- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 11:50:06 -0700
- To: Alex Mogilevsky <alexmog@microsoft.com>
- Cc: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Alex Mogilevsky <alexmog@microsoft.com> wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: www-style-request@w3.org [mailto:www-style-request@w3.org] On Behalf >> Of Håkon Wium Lie >> Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 6:59 AM >> >> Two issues have been raised about spanning elements: >> >> http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-multicol/#column-span >> >> 1) does margin collapsing apply to spanning elements? >> > (1) - do they have to? I expected colspans to be more like floats, and floats function perfectly well without any margin collapsing. Wouldn't it be easier to keep the model simple? I consider that aspect of floats rather unfortunate, actually. I've wanted my float margins to collapse with other floats rooted to the same element quite a lot, actually, and usually have to hack around this lack with classes. For example, if I just want the same separate between floats as between the float and the border of the container, I have to twiddle the margins, otherwise the between-float space will be twice as big. So, I'd prefer to make spanning elements collapse margins in the way that Hakon describes, as it seems sane and useful. ~TJ
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