- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 15:05:44 -0700
- To: Silverwind <me@silverwind.io>
- Cc: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Silverwind <me@silverwind.io> wrote: > I feel like a simple 'caret' property would hinder future additions to caret > customization, and a 'caret-color' would be more appropriate. Including two > other related properties which came to mind, I'd propose these: > > Name: caret-color > Values: <color> > > Name: caret-style > Values: line | block | underline > > Name: caret-width > Values: <length> > > These 3 properties could then be combined in a shorthand very similar to > 'border': > > Name: caret > Values: <caret-width>|| <caret-style> || <caret-color> At the CSSWG f2f earlier this week, we resolved to add caret-color; based on the discussion above, the grammar would just be "<color>", with the initial value being a UA-defined color. We can add more later if we have reasons to, but aren't planning to at the moment. In particular, caret-style seems like possibly a bad idea; "underline" is the "overwrite" behavior, otherwise known as "what the hell is happening with my text?!?" behavior. ^_^ ~TJ
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