- From: Alex Mogilevsky <alexmog@microsoft.com>
- Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 15:52:07 +0000
- To: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>, Alan Stearns <stearns@adobe.com>
- CC: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
> From: Håkon Wium Lie [mailto:howcome@opera.com]
> Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 4:11 PM
>
> This is also a problem in the first example of the Regions draft:
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-css3-gcpm-20111129/regions.png
>
> By setting the height of region 1 in ems, pixels, or percentages, one risks
> unintentionally blank lines.
>
> An alternative is to select lines directly. For example:
>
> article { columns: 3 }
> img, p.lead::first-lines(3) {
> column-span: 2;
> }
This example assumes that first-line pseudoelement can take block properties (such as 'column-span') which is highly speculative.
If a new feature is needed to support that kind of sizing, having a "line-height" unit would work better:
#region2 { height: 4li; }
(same is important for good quality drop caps BTW).
"line-height" unit can be complicated when font size varies in line, but it works very well for typical designs that want to emphasize first few lines of content.
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