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Re: [css3-flexbox] about flexible margins and alignment

From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 11:54:56 -0800
Message-ID: <CAAWBYDAgStEgtbfgA1LxB_B7G_L0ry6b7cmDKdzJ4hK6fns79g@mail.gmail.com>
To: Alex Mogilevsky <alexmog@microsoft.com>
Cc: Andrew Fedoniuok <news@terrainformatica.com>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Alex Mogilevsky <alexmog@microsoft.com> wrote:
> ± -----Original Message-----
> ± From: andrew.fedoniouk@live.com
> ± Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2012 10:16 AM
> ±
> ± "You are saying it is a pretty common layout. Can you send a screenshot of
> ± that kind of layout in use?"
> ±
> ± Sure. Here is a screenshot from real-life Web App:
> ± http://terrainformatica.com/w3/eq-distr-buttons.png
> ±
>
> Good use case. Thanks.
>
> Maybe it is a good idea to have another option for 'flex-pack' that does exactly that (put half-space at start and end).
>
> It could be
>
>        flex-pack:justify -- add equal space between items
>        flex-pack:distribute -- add equal space between items and half of that at start/end
>
> how does that sound?

That sounds fine to me.

~TJ
Received on Monday, 9 January 2012 19:55:44 UTC

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