Re: New CSS declaration for width and height

> On Apr 12, 2016, at 12:47 PM, Giovanna Ruiu <giovannaruiu6@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Good morning, 
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> I am Giovanna, a Front End Developer from London.
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> I would like to suggest a new CSS declarations to use in case you have to specify width and height, and these two must be exactly the same.
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> For example, when you cannot leave either width or height to auto, and have to specify for both exactly the same value.
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> It would be handy to have a declaration such as “size: 100px” which would mean “width - height: 100px”.
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> Even if by using variables we would have to change only that once, I think this little line could be of use in many cases and would certainly save one line of code, which is always good.
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> The web is full of squares and I think developers would benefit from having this little declaration ready to use.
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> Hopefully you will take this into consideration, thank you!

I think this is not a bad idea. 'size' could be a 2-value shorthand for width and height, where giving a single value is the same as giving the same value twice. So 'size: 100px' would be the same as 'size: 100px 100px', which would be the same as 'width:100px; height:100px'.