[css-multicol] [css-align] Should row-gap: normal in multicol have a used value of 1em or 0?
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The full IRC log of that discussion<TabAtkins> rachelandrew: hope this is straightforward<TabAtkins> rachelandrew: multicol has gap between columns. for history, resolves to 1em <TabAtkins> rachelandrew: as we're doing the row gap... <TabAtkins> rachelandrew: in grid and flex the gap defaults to 0 <TabAtkins> rachelandrew: shoudl we go with 1em to match columnn gap in multicol? <TabAtkins> q+ <kbabbitt> q+ <TabAtkins> rachelandrew: I think 1em seems most logical <fantasai> +1 to 1em <florian> +1 to 1em <TabAtkins> rachelandrew: don't see why you'd want zero gap <astearns> ack kbabbitt <fantasai> scribe+ <astearns> ack TabAtkins <kbabbitt> +1 to 1em <fantasai> TabAtkins: Agree to stick with 1em in particular for multicol, you're not guaranteed to have an obvious visual separation -- it's just text lines <bkardell_> +1 <fantasai> TabAtkins: need to know that's a fresh set for columns <kizu> +q <fantasai> TabAtkins: whereas in flex/grid, often there's some visual separation among items <astearns> ack kizu <TabAtkins> kizu: what about 1lh? <TabAtkins> kizu: often when you separate paragraphs, if you want to follow vertical rhythm use 1lh between them <TabAtkins> kizu: tho if you have this style of design, 1em might be smaller than the separation between paragraphs <astearns> 1lh makes sense to me <TabAtkins> kizu: you probably want it at least as large <TabAtkins> iank_: I think the downside is most devs expect the gap to be consistent between axises <TabAtkins> iank_: so "yes, but..." since column-gap is already 1em <TabAtkins> iank_: so matching is more sensible to me <TabAtkins> (agreed) <TabAtkins> astearns: I think typographically I"d probably want more than 1lh, so 1em is fine, i'll change it anyway <kbabbitt> as long as it's not 0 I think it's good <TabAtkins> astearns: so proposal is we have a consistent 1em default gap in multicol <florian> +1 <TabAtkins> RESOLVED: in multicol, both row-gap and column-gap 'normal' resolves to 1em |
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In #2923 (comment) I've a proposal for multicol overflow in the block direction. This would create rows, similar to flex lines or grid rows, and the expectation is that the
row-gapproperty would then apply here to allow authors to create spacing between rows.column-gap: normalin multicol has a used value of 1em (it's 0px for flex and grid containers), the question here is whetherrow-gap: normalshould also be 1em for multicol or whether it too should be 0px?The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: