- From: Morten Stenshorne <mstensho@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 08 May 2013 11:46:02 +0200
- To: Simon Sapin <simon.sapin@exyr.org>
- Cc: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>, François REMY <francois.remy.dev@outlook.com>, www-style@w3.org
Simon Sapin <simon.sapin@exyr.org> writes: > Le 04/05/2013 20:20, Håkon Wium Lie a écrit : >> Also sprach Simon Sapin: >> >> > > I support this resolution; we shouldn't try to solve this in the >> > > multicol spec. >> > >> > I agree (fragmentation details go in the Fragmentation spec), but this >> > only one half of issue originally reported by François. The other half >> > is overflow in the inline dimension of out-of-flow elements, and I think >> > the spec should add something there: >> > >> > > - Discussed issues with overflowing floats in multicol >> > >http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2013Apr/0639.html >> >> And, in another message: >> >> > "In-flow" is defined in CSS 2.1 and clearly does not apply to floated >> > elements. But we could could change the spec to say "Floated or in-flow >> > content that extends …" >> > >> >http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#x24 >> >> The proposal is then to change this sentence: >> >> Content in the normal flow that extends into column gaps (e.g., long >> words or images) is clipped in the middle of the column gap. >> >> http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-multicol/#overflow >> >> to >> >> Floated or in-flow content that extends into column gaps (e.g., long >> words or images) is clipped in the middle of the column gap. >> >> This makes sense to me; I kinda think of floats as being in the flow >> (although pushed to the side of the river, it's not airlifted away >> like abspos) and it makes sense to treat them like in-flow content. > > That’s one way to resolve it, but I’d also add: > > Absolutely positioned content is not clipped at column boundaries. Even if the containing block of the abspos is the multicol container itself or a descendant? -- ---- Morten Stenshorne, developer, Opera Software ASA ---- ---- Office: +47 23692400 ------ Mobile: +47 93440112 ---- ------------------ http://www.opera.com/ -----------------
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