- From: James Holderness <j4_james@hotmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 09:59:40 +0000
- To: <robert@ocallahan.org>, "David Hyatt" <hyatt@apple.com>
- CC: "Alan Stearns" <stearns@adobe.com>, <www-style@w3.org>
> Has anyone got any actual use-cases for vertical relative positioning in > multicol? The only thing I can think of off the top of my head is > adjusting > vertical positioning within a line, i.e. some kind of > superscript/subscript > hack, and for that use-case you definitely don't want the positioned stuff > to move to the next column. A while back we had a client that wanted a layout for their magazine that consisted of a number of article snippets, each having a heading and a bunch of paragraphs. The idea was that each snippet would start in a new column, and the heading would be pulled up out of the column flow. The plan was to use a relative position to move the heading up, and add a negative bottom margin to pull up the following paragraphs. At the time I don't think we had working column breaks, so it was probably more complicated than that, but that was the general idea. I believe in the end we just gave up on that layout and left the headings inline. Regards James
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