width="*" in tables means that this cell will take all possible width.
There is no AFAIK such attr in CSS.
Brenton Strine wrote:
I don't think that code works. I can't get it to. At
least, if it does, it is extremely fragile and breaks if
everything else isn't set exactly right.
Is there an equivelant of the "*" in CSS? I don't think
there is.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aux
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 12:35 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [whatwg] Suggestion for new
element/attribute
This code works fine. The only thing is to move * width
into CSS.
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<div>blablabla</div>
. . .
</td>
<td width="*"> </td>
</tr>
</table>
Brenton Strine wrote:
Consider this case:
You have a table one row high with two cells. It's
width is 100%.
You want the width of the left cell to be only as big
as the content,
and you want the right cell to take up all the rest of
the space.
However, the amount of content in both the right and
the left cell
changes, so you can't give a percent or a pixel width.
In that situation, you could either 1) intentionally
give the right
cell an incorrect width of 100%, or 2) put a whole lot
of invisible
text in it, so that the cell always expands enough to
make the left
cell only the minimum size needed.
-----Original Message-----
From: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 3:44 PM
To: Brenton Strine
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [whatwg] Suggestion for new
element/attribute
This sounds very much like something that should be
done in CSS, not
HTML. But can you explain what you mean by "expand ...
as if it were
full of text"? If something is already a given size,
then filling it
with text should not make it expand.
--
Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
Brenton Strine wrote:
Hello,
I am new here, so please let me know if I am doing
anything out of
order.
I would like to make a suggestion for soemthing I want
to
see in HTML5.
I call it the inflate tag. <inflate>.
The purpose of this tag is to expand that which
contains
it as if it were full of text. I have seen many
websites
where the designers were forced to put long strings of
hidden text
into a cell in order to make it expand correctly. Thus
text browsers
find strange segments
like
this:
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w
w
w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w
w
w
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w
w
w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w
w
w
w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w
w
w
w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w
w
w
w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w
w
w
w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w w
w
w
w w w w w w w w
Of course, developers already have the ability to
specify
the width in terms of pixels, ems, percent, and tons
of other stuff.
But there are times, particularly in fluid design,
when you can't get
the div to work the way you want without text to
expand it.
This could even be an attribute rather than a tag:
width="inflate".
Brenton
