- From: Charles Pritchard <chuck@jumis.com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 08:04:25 -0800
- To: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Cc: David Dailey <ddailey@zoominternet.net>, Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>, Brian Birtles <bbirtles@mozilla.com>, www-svg <www-svg@w3.org>
On Dec 12, 2011, at 6:27 AM, Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org> wrote: > On Sunday, December 11, 2011, 3:31:41 PM, David wrote: > > DD> Oftentimes I have found myself drawing stuff invisibly first, so > DD> that I can measure it. Then after knowing how big it will be I position it. > > DD> Centering things relative to one another is difficult in SVG > DD> (unlike in HTML/CSS), and CSS doesn't seem to help with this issue > DD> (unless I'm missing something -- and I well may be), so when I > DD> start finding parts of the spec that tell me I cannot measure > DD> things unless they are visible, it makes me nervous. I recall a > DD> similar issue recently with getBBox and leprechaun-nodes. > > If you want things to be rendered (but invisible) - as opposed to not being in the rendering tree at all, which is what display: none does - then visibility: hidden is what you want. In HTML it's also position: absolute and top/left offset off screen. It's not an elegant solution but it's been the method for a long time. It'd be nice to have an elegant solution in the future. These feel like work-arounds for an API that wasn't designed for these use cases. -Charles
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