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

On 09/16/2015 04:04 PM, François REMY wrote:
>>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?

It's for subgrids.

subgrid {
   grid-column: span 4;
   grid-template-columns: subgrid repeat(auto-fill, [subgrid-odd] [subgrid-even]);
}

(That's not a useful example, and it's maybe not necessary to have
repetitions inside subgrids, but that's what it's for.)

~fantasai

Received on Wednesday, 16 September 2015 20:57:50 UTC