Re: borders and padding

Well I almost stopped him completely; his knighthood wanted to 
recommend CSS3 instead. :)

I don't see what is so awful about margins, borders (size related 
features), and padding. It provides a great deal of control over 
layout. Far better than a GridBagLayout in Java.

Corey


On Friday, February 13, 2004, at 09:01 PM, Adam Megacz wrote:

>
> Corey Jewett <[email protected]> writes:
>> Is it possible to implement the entire CSS margin/border/padding
>> specifications?
>
> Corey, I think Tim Berners-Lee has hacked your machine and is forging
> emails from your account.  You might want to change your password.
>
> ;)
>
>   - a
>
>
>>
>> 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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