- From: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 19:16:45 -0700
- To: Florian Rivoal <florian@rivoal.net>
- Cc: Alan Stearns <stearns@adobe.com>, W3C Style <www-style@w3.org>
> On Jan 20, 2015, at 2:55 PM, Florian Rivoal <florian@rivoal.net> wrote:
>
> The behavior of max-lines is defined in terms of inserting a fragment
> break after the specified number of lines. Making it apply on non
> fragmentainers would have unexpected effects if that definition is kept.
> "p {max-lines:3;}" would not limit p to 3 lines (To do that, use
> "p {max-lines:3; fragmentation:break;}"). Instead it would insert a page
> break after 3 lines into the paragraph if you're on paged media, or do
> nothing on continuous media, etc, which is probably not what the
> author intended.
I think that on continuous media it should just hide everything after the three lines. It would be like 'overflow: hidden', but clipping the text content where you want, without clipping the background or child elements. That seems like it could be useful sometimes.
Received on Friday, 13 March 2015 02:17:13 UTC