- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 7 May 2015 16:24:42 -0700
- To: Mats Palmgren <mats@mozilla.com>
- Cc: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 9:11 AM, Mats Palmgren <mats@mozilla.com> wrote: > I have two comments on the following text from "4. Grid Items": > "A grid item establishes a new formatting context for its contents. > The type of this formatting context is determined by its display > value, as usual. The computed display of a grid item is determined > by applying the table in CSS 2.1 Chapter 9.7. However, grid items > are grid-level boxes, not block-level boxes: they participate in > their container's grid formatting context, not in a block > formatting context." > http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-grid/#grid-items > > 1. It omits that a grid item's 'display' value is blockified. > Please add the equivalent of this text from Flexbox: > > http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-flexbox-1/#flex-items > "The display value of a flex item is blockified: if the specified > display of an in-flow child of an element generating a flex > container is an inline-level value, it computes to its block-level > equivalent. (See CSS2.1ยง9.7 [CSS21] and CSS Display [CSS3-DISPLAY] > for details on this type of display value conversion.)" Done, thanks. > 2. I searched the spec text for "grid-level box" to try to find > its definition but this is the only occurrence. This is when > I realized that the last sentence above *is* the definition of > "grid-level box", i.e. a box that participate in their > container's grid formatting context. I found this a bit > confusing and would like you to consider reformulating that > last sentence to make it clear that it's defining the term > "grid-level box" there, rather than just mentioning a detail > about them in passing. We've added an actual <dfn> to that term, to make it clear we're defining the term. (And did the same for "flex-level" in Flexbox.) ~TJ and fantasai
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