Re: [css-align] A couple questions about CSS box alignment

Thank you for the explanation fantasai! Got it now.

On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 7:16 PM, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
wrote:

> On 12/19/2017 10:41 AM, Patrick Brosset wrote:
>
>> I'm new to the CSS Box Alignment spec and I'm currently reading it from
>> the point of view of someone trying to understand it enough to imagine a
>> browser devtools for aligning elements on a page.
>>
>> To that end, I have a few questions. I'm sure they're quite beginner
>> level, and I hope they're fine to ask here.
>>
>> 1) Why does justify-content not work on block containers?
>> It seems to me like that would be useful to align content along the
>> inline axis nicely.
>>
>
> justify-self handles the alignment of the block-level elements within a
> block container;
> to align all of them, you can use justify-items.
>
> (It didn't make too much sense for us to introduce an intermediary concept
> of "all the
> content of the block container as a unit" the way a column Flexbox has a
> flex line, so
> we didn't.)
>
> 2) I don't understand how align-content is meant to work with multicol
>> containers.
>> The alignment subject is the entire column box which, I assumed, would
>> take the full block size.
>> But I'm guessing that's where I'm wrong. Are column boxes different
>> sizes? Is this due to the break-* properties?
>>
>
> If a multicol container has a specified size that is taller than its
> columns,
> then there is extra space to distribute. e.g.
>
> <article style="columns: 3; height: 100vh;">
>   ... not enough content to fill the height of <article>
> </article>
>
> Note that applying the alignment properties to block-level boxes and
> multicol
> isn't well-implemented yet.
>
> ~fantasai
>
>
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