- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 08:47:46 -0700
- To: Greg Houston <gregory.houston@gmail.com>
- Cc: W3C Style <www-style@w3.org>
On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Greg Houston <gregory.houston@gmail.com> wrote: >>> 2. If you slice up a div into smaller divs and add the same background >>> to each slice as the parent and reposition that background >>> appropriately, each background will still be the correct size to >>> rebuild the original image from the slices. That is, unless you have >>> resized the original container div and set the background-size to >>> something like "auto 100%". That new background-size in pixels will >>> not propagate down to the children, and so each child element now >>> requires additional math to set the size of the background in relation >>> to the size of the slice. It would be helpful if there was a CSS >>> toggle that would make the exact size of the parent background >>> propagate to the children. >> >> I don't understand the problem you're outlining. Can you link to a >> concrete example? > > http://greghoustondesign.com/sandbox/background-size/ Yeah, I understood the mechanics there. I don't see why it's a problem. ^_^ Why are you putting the same background on a child? What is the child being used for? Can you achieve the same effect some other way that doesn't require anything new in CSS? ~TJ
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