- From: Antony Kennedy <booshtukka@me.com>
- Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 15:18:55 +0000
- To: Marat Tanalin <mtanalin@yandex.ru>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
> On 1 Dec 2014, at 15:10, Marat Tanalin <mtanalin@yandex.ru> wrote:
>
> Hello.
>
> What if we add the `size` CSS-property as a shorthand for `width`/`height` pair?
>
> For example:
>
> .foo {size: 10px; }
>
> would set both `width` and `height` properties to `10px`.
>
> And:
>
> .bar {size: 2em 3em; }
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> would set `width` to `2em` and `height` to `3em`.
>
> This can be (and is) implemented via a preprocessor, but preprocessors exist just to overcome current CSS shortcomings, while it makes sense to overcome them on CSS-itself level to make CSS itself more usable and self-contained in the long term.
>
> Thanks.
>
Size could easily be mistaken for font-size, border-size, or other things.
“dimensions” might be a better property name.
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Received on Monday, 8 December 2014 17:55:40 UTC