On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 6:21 AM, josh on <josh@theyrule.net> wrote: > Proposed solution: > %w, %h > Where 50%w is 50% of the offsetWidth of the offsetParent, and 50%h is 50% > of the offsetHeight of the offsetParent. > > To maintain a div at 16:9 you could use the style: > > .video-wrap { > width: 100%w; > height: 56.25%w; > max-width: 177%h; > max-height: 100%h; > } > > I hope this is a helpful contribution, my apologies if it is not. > This won't work in general, as it introduces cyclic dependency. The dimensions of a parent could be affected by its descendants. It could probably work if the "parent" has layout containment. Do we have a concept for elements with layout containment? Probably we could call it layout container or something? - XidornReceived on Tuesday, 15 March 2016 02:50:26 UTC
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