- From: L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 18:53:43 -0800
- To: Koji Ishii <kojiishi@gluesoft.co.jp>
- Cc: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Thursday 2011-01-06 04:09 -0500, Koji Ishii wrote: > There's a few e-mails going on in Japanese ML about 'auto' logical width in orthogonal flows, the issue mentioned in writing modes spec[1]. One person preferred 100vh option, but I'd like to understand the results of each option better. > > <div id="A" style='width: 300px; writing-mode: horizontal-tb;'> > AAA > <div id="B" style='writing-mode: vertical-rl;'>BBB</div> > CCC > </div> > > B has 'auto' logical width here, so the actual height will be: > * max-content-size: the height of the string "BBB" > * 100vh: the height of the viewport, so there will be vertical scroll > * same logical width: 300px There's a fourth option, which I described here: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009Nov/0286.html It works out to the height of the viewport (100vh) in some cases, but will produce other heights when there's a constrained-height element in-between. I think it's preferable to the 100vh option. -David -- L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ Mozilla Corporation http://www.mozilla.com/
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