- From: Lea Verou <leaverou@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2012 22:12:44 +0000
- To: "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- CC: Alexis Menard <alexis.menard@openbossa.org>, www-style@w3.org
On 30/12/11 14:19, L. David Baron wrote: > There are many shorthand properties that can't represent the full > space of the longhand properties that they set. 'border' is one of > them, since it cannot set different borders on each side. For what it's worth, I still remember how confusing I had found this when I was learning CSS a few years ago. I was expecting values like border: 1px 2px 3px 4px solid dotted black white; to work like their individual longhands, which I found out they didn't. To day, I still haven't understood the rationale behind this decision. It would be unambiguous, doesn't introduce lookahead, and is certainly useful. -- Lea Verou (http://lea.verou.me | @LeaVerou)
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