- From: James Ross <w3c-20040125@james-ross.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 13:41:57 +0000
- To: Axel Dahmen <brille1@hotmail.com>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
> From: brille1@hotmail.com > Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 13:51:05 +0100 > > This is quite contrary to my observation. When working with databases, > spreadsheets and their corresponding frameworks, columns are always > horizontally arranged (where, e.g., Column A is the leftmost column) and > rows are vertically arranged (where, e.g., Row #0 is the uppermost row). > > Even the HTML table layout (colspan, rowspan) works according to my > observation, and, as far as I can see, in contrast to the flex-direction. Maybe the difference here is singular vs plural; columns are laid out horizontally but a column layouts out things vertically. when I set flex-direction on a container to "column" it makes sense to me that its contents are thus arranged vertically. -- James Ross (james@james-ross.co.uk)
Received on Friday, 14 March 2014 13:42:30 UTC