- From: L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 23:16:23 -0700
- To: Alan Stearns <stearns@adobe.com>
- Cc: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Monday 2012-08-06 22:14 -0700, Alan Stearns wrote: > In example 5, have you considered how to style the second column of the > second (or subsequent) region boxes? This might become a use case for > chaining pseudo-elements. Indeed. > An alternative to max-lines could be an nth-line pseudo-element. Setting > break-after on ::nth-line(3) with an auto-height box would accomplish the > same thing as max-lines:3, and nth-line could be put to other uses as well. Perhaps, though ::nth-line sounds somewhat scary, and supporting break-after on it more so. (The max-lines solution also might interact with 'widows' and 'orphans' better.) -David -- 𝄞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄢 Mozilla http://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂
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