- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 00:37:28 +0100
- To: Dave Cramer <dauwhe@gmail.com>
- Cc: Alan Stearns <stearns@adobe.com>, "www-style\@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
Dave Cramer wrote: > On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 8:30 PM, Alan Stearns <stearns@adobe.com> wrote: > > 1. I think that aligning the first baseline of the block to a grid line > > would be useful. > > > > This could be a 'baseline' or 'first-baseline' value. It might also be > > useful to snap the last baseline, but I'm less certain about that. > > Aligning to the first baseline would be useful for almost all books. Yes. > Footnotes are an example of where we would want the last baseline of > the box containing the footnote to align to a baseline grid. I've seen > lots of designs where other text elements (pull quotes, sidebars) sit > at the bottom of a page, and it would be appropriate to align to the > last baseline. Yes. I my mind, this will happen automatically if you set a baseline grid. For example: body { baseline-grid: new } .pullquote { float: bottom } http://books.spec.whatwg.org/#baseline-grids That is, the body element sets a baseline grid which its content -- including .pullquote elements -- align with. Cheers, -h&kon Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
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