RE: [css-grid] repeat(auto) issue

>From fantasai [mailto:fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net]
> On 05/07/2015 06:35 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 1:56 PM, François REMY
> > <francois.remy.dev@outlook.com> wrote:
> >> Tab Atkins said:
> >>> Oh!  You mean that you may or may not have enough items to fill a
> >>> single line, and if you don't have enough, you'd like the grid to
> >>> only generate as many columns as needed?
> >>
> >> Exactly ^_^ I thought it would be clear with my initial mail:
> >>
> >>> If I want the amount of repetitions to be constrained by a max-width
> >>> constrain AND by the amount of repetitions required to display all
> >>> items of the grid (to preserve the right horizontal centering), then
> >>> I’m out of luck right now.
> >
> > We discussed this, and we agree it's a reasonable use-case.  We could
> > perhaps branch the repeat(auto,...) syntax to have two auto keyword,
> > "auto-fill" and "auto-fit", where auto-fit automatically drops empty
> > repetitions after placement but before layout.  We'll need to give it
> > some more thought and ask the WG what they think.
> 
> To close off on this, the WG resolved to accept this solution, and it is now
> edited into the spec:
>    https://drafts.csswg.org/css-grid-1/#repeat-notation
> 
> Please take a look and let us know if there's anything else that needs fixing
> (or if we made any mistakes in the edits).
> 
> ~fantasai

Thanks for notying of the spec update.
That looks good to me, overall, though I'm not sure I understand the "name-repeat" feature. Could you provide an example of how it's supposed to be used?

Best regards,
François

Received on Wednesday, 16 September 2015 20:04:28 UTC