- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 14:34:50 -0800
- To: David <david.email@ymail.com>
- Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 11:31 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)? > > Yes, you understand it correctly. All right. I support this, but I think it needs to be done properly, by splitting apart some of the 'position' functionality. I sketched an early form of this on my blog some time ago: <http://www.xanthir.com/blog/b48H0> When fantasai and I pick up the Positioning spec <http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-position/> I expect we'll define something like this, so you can mix-and-match some of the features of the different 'position' values. ~TJ
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