Re: [css-display] Naming a "display:none"-ness switch.

How about `render`? It seems to work semantically for all the
examples/cases you listed.

render: normal;
render: none;
render: contents;
render: hidden;



On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Recent discussion between me, fantasai, and some internal people over
> > the 'display-box' property
> > <http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-display-3/#the-display-box> have led us
> > to conclude that it needs to be a completely separate property, not a
> > longhand of 'display'.  (Reasoning below.)  However, now we need a
> > name.  We've come up with "box", "show", and "box-tree".  Better
> > suggestions?
>
> Alan points out that it's probably valuable to know the full range of
> values we expect to have for this.
>
> There's the obvious starting values - "none" and something like
> "normal" or "auto".
>
> Then, we'll add "contents", a la the current Display draft, which
> suppresses the display of the box but still displays the contents, as
> if they were "hoisted" up a level in the tree.
>
> We'll probably also want a value that suppresses the box but keeps
> animations/counters/etc going.  For this value, maybe "hide"?
>
> ~TJ
>
>