Re: borders and padding

Corey Jewett <[email protected]> Fri, 13 Feb 2004 11:20:53 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.xwt.widgets
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Is it possible to implement the entire CSS margin/border/padding 
specifications?

Corey


On Friday, February 13, 2004, at 11:05 AM, Charles Goodwin wrote:

> Anybody got thoughts on how to handle borders and padding now that
> they're out of the core?
>
> I wanted to just trap fill for borders but now I'm unsure whether 
> that's
> wise given that I've no idea how we determine whether a value put to
> fill is a colour or an image resource.
>
> Also, should padding be part of border?  (An invisible border?)  Or
> would it be better handled using a transformation rather than extra
> boxes.  We can either wrap the <content/> in a 3x3 grid of boxes (with
> colspan set of course) or we can somehow shift the <content/> to the
> desired x,y and make sure it's never larger than [width-2x] and [width 
> -
> 2y].
> -- 
> - Charlie
>
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