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Re: [css-sizing] Percentage value against indefinite size for min-width

From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 10:21:56 -0700
Message-ID: <CAAWBYDA07LdieqtgY9MtUXdNHODWURjGSKCsdfRVd_RTHHvLrA@mail.gmail.com>
To: Takao Baba <baba@bpsinc.jp>
Cc: W3C www-style mailing list <www-style@w3.org>
On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 1:26 PM, Takao Baba <baba@bpsinc.jp> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> css-sizing-3 section 5.2 [1] says:
>
>> However, in order to prevent cyclic sizing in the general case, percentages do not otherwise resolve against indefinite sizes, and instead are treated as auto.
>
> but `min-width`, `max-width`, `min-height` and `max-height` do not
> take `auto` value [2].
>
> Shouldn't it be "... and instead are treated as initial value." ?
>
> [1] https://drafts.csswg.org/css-sizing-3/#percentage-sizing
> [2] https://drafts.csswg.org/css2/visudet.html#min-max-heights

The min-* properties do take "auto" now. But yeah, the max-*
properties don't, and we need to be more precise about that, thanks.

~TJ
Received on Tuesday, 10 May 2016 17:29:48 UTC

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