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Re: [css-overflow] processing model of continue:discard

From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 14:21:41 -0700
Message-ID: <CAAWBYDCHu10t0KjuWHX_E_XkD8z+yed=n7Raf0OSU+MehEcPGg@mail.gmail.com>
To: Florian Rivoal <florian@rivoal.net>
Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 3:18 PM, Florian Rivoal <florian@rivoal.net> wrote:
> As noted in the associated issue[1], we need to define how ''continue: discard'' works when the element it is applied to isn't already a fragmentainer.
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> Rather than defining a new model according to which things may become fragmentainers, I am thinking the I should use the same approach as "continue: fragments" and create a fragment box, the only difference being that you'd only get one, rather than a sequence of fragment boxes.
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> This implies that ::nth-fragment(1) would work on it, which I think is fine.
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> Can I go ahead and spec it this way, or does anyone think I should take another approach?

This seems reasonable to me.

~TJ
Received on Friday, 13 March 2015 21:22:28 UTC

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