- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 11:16:06 -0800
- To: David <david.email@ymail.com>
- Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 10:46 AM, David <david.email@ymail.com> wrote: > a new position property value would be great to see in a new spec update > (http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-position/): > A mixture of the absolute and relative position property value, > which behaves like the relative value but doesn't affect the normal > document flow like with absolute. > > Currently such a rendering behavior is just possible > by adding the parent element a relative position and the child the > absolute position, but why such a detour? > > Here an example of what should be achieved by a new position value: > http://jsfiddle.net/UZLUS/4/ Let me express this in slightly more technical terms, just to make sure I understand it: You want a value that takes an item out of flow, like position:absolute, but interprets the trbl properties as offsets from the item's static position (like relpos) rather than as offsets from the containing block (like abspos)? ~TJ
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