- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 16:10:39 -0700
- To: shelby@coolpage.com
- Cc: "Håkon Wium Lie" <howcome@opera.com>, Alex Mogilevsky <alexmog@microsoft.com>, www-style@w3.org
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Shelby Moore <shelby@coolpage.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Shelby Moore <shelby@coolpage.com> wrote: >>> Regardless of how you interpret the spec above for 'column-span', it can >>> not go underneath, because the prior columns have already been >>> 'break-after'. The spec does not allow us to put anything in the columns >>> after a column break. Since when did a column break become not a column >>> break? >>> >>> http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-multicol/#column-breaks >>> >>> If a designer says to break the column, they mean it-- nothing must >>> follow >>> in that column. >> >> The suggestion here is essentially to create a new column row in this >> circumstance, similar to what you'd get with the "column-overflow: >> block" proposal we talked about earlier. > > I thought of that too, but Håkon did not show any column-gap or what ever > we intend to put between rows of columns. To be fair, that's likely because *I* didn't put a column-row-gap in my ascii examples, because I thought it might obscure what I was trying to illustrate. Regardless, I'm pretty certain this is exactly what Hakon is talking about. > And you can't put it underneath in the current spec, because all overflow > must go in the inline direction. See section 8.2. Yes, this would require a change to the spec. ~TJ
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