Outline would be useful if you could specify the individual
top/right/bottom/left components of it.
Say you have a site and you want to separate sections with a 1px border
at the bottom of each, doing so using border is the obvious option but
this interferes with the baseline grid. If you could use outline-bottom
instead (which doesn't exist unfortunately) you'd got your 1px separate
without added an extra pixel to the position of subsequent content.
- Andrew
David Hucklesby wrote:
On Sat, 19 May 2007 11:18:04 +0100, Designer wrote:
On 18/05/07, Stephen Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I find this invaluable,
http://www.webdevout.net/css-hacks
The most valuable part (for me) was introducing me to 'outline' instead of
border. I
confess, I'd never come across it before. I've had a quick play and it does
validate
OK. The interesting thing (I think, anyway) is that whereas border applies an
extra
width/height, outline does not. This can be useful sometimes, esp when testing
[ as in *
{outline : red dashed thin}, for example].
The big question of course, is whether there is anything undesirable about the
use of
'outline'?
While "border" affects layout, adding to size and "trapping" margins,
for example, AFAIK "outline" does not, acting in a similar manner to
"background".
As you noted, this is valuable when testing. As you also say, not
for IE, where I resort to background-color instead.
Incidentally, have you tried Firebug? It's the only thing I know
that indicates where your margins are (and lets you change them
dynamically).
Cordially,
David
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