Re: [css3-regions] Does flow-from or content win?

Sorry everybody... I don't know if that was a gmail error or what -- I
was just as confused to see that it looked like I sent an email that
wasn't mine.  Clearly this was just a reply with nothing in it...
Don't know how that happened - never seen anything like it.



On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Brian Kardell <bkardell@gmail.com> wrote:
> The regions spec currently states:
>
> "If the 'content' property is defined on a region, it has no effect on the
> region's visual formatting."
>
> I'm currently only able to test this in WebKit using content: url, as the
> rest of the css3-content values that work on elements that flow-from applies
> to aren't implemented. But so far WebKit isn't following this portion of the
> spec. If I define this on a div:
>
>  content: url(someImage.png);
>  -webkit-flow-from: someFlow;
>
> Then that element's content is replaced with the image and consumes no flow
> content.
>
> I'm thinking this may be preferable to what the spec states, as there are
> values in css3-content that I might want to work with regions. Perhaps I'd
> choose to insert an image in this manner. Or I might selectively set
> 'content: none' or 'content: inhibit' on an element in the region chain,
> then bring it back with 'content: normal'.
>
> What's the motivation for making flow-from trump content? Could we remove
> that text?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alan
>

Received on Tuesday, 18 October 2011 22:51:44 UTC