- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2015 15:59:30 -0800
- To: Bruno Racineux <bruno@hexanet.net>
- Cc: www-style <www-style@w3.org>
On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 3:56 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote: > A less-involved bit of work would be to have a 'width' keyword that > had special behavior for multicol elements; if they had a definite > height, it would set the width to the result of doing multicol layout > accordingly (it would presumably be equivalent to 'auto' in all other > circumstances). That would *not* be a ton of work, and would solve > the problem in the SO post. However, it's probably also low-value, > since most of the time you don't want things to scroll horizontally at > all. And actually, more-or-less this issue was raised back in 2007: <https://wiki.csswg.org/spec/css-multicol>. You probably can't see the email it links to, as it dates from the time when we sent our telcon minutes to the private list, but it invokes a very similar problem - when a multicol has a definite height, we can reasonably invert the normal width/height dependencies and let the width depend on the height. I'm recording this thread as additional input on the issue for multicol 4. ~TJ
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