- From: Andrew Fedoniouk <news@terrainformatica.com>
- Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 13:04:30 -0800
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: Simon Sapin <simon.sapin@exyr.org>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 9:28 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Simon Sapin <simon.sapin@exyr.org> wrote: >> On 01/02/2014 21:46, Andrew Fedoniouk wrote: >>> For display:block elements, >>> what conceptually stops us from treating `vertical-align` >>> exactly in the same way as in display:table-cell ? >> >> Backward compatibility with existing content that may rely on vertical-align >> doing nothing in this case. >> >>> I believe this functionality is so basic and asked for >>> so frequently that we should do something about it. >> >> Use Flexbox. >> >> http://philipwalton.github.io/solved-by-flexbox/demos/vertical-centering/ > > Or, when it's implemented, use align-content: > <http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-align/#content-distribution> > > We're genericizing the Flexbox/Grid alignment properties to work on > all the block-level display types. > Thanks Tab. That seems like close to what is needed. Too narrative in my opinion but probably will work. As far as understand introduction of all these justify|align-content|items|self fireworks is one more cent to the price of rejection of flex units and margins expressed as flexes. But that's another story indeed. -- Andrew Fedoniouk. http://terrainformatica.com
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