Re: [css3-flexbox] [css3-grid-layout] Too Many Alignment Properties

On 02/02/2012 12:02 PM, Alex Mogilevsky wrote:
>> From: fantasai [mailto:fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net]
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 2:26 AM
>>
>> Rather than having every layout system design and implement its own set of
>> alignment properties, I'd like us to take a good look and see if we can boil these
>> down to a single set of properties that we can all share.
>
> I like the idea. So we could have just two properties: 'align' and 'content-align',
> applicable with anything and its content...

I'd do 'box-align' and 'content-align', but yea. :)

> There is a slight problem with where it should be defined though. I am not sure
> there is any active spec that is an obvious fit. And without that it is hard to
> talk about the idea..

Flexbox would define it for Flexbox, and other layout modes would define what they
mean in their own layout mode. Just like width and height. :)

~fantasai