ISSUE-28
centerless border image
Add keyword to 'border-image' to suppress the center image
- State:
- CLOSED
- Product:
- CSS3 Backgrounds and Borders
- Raised by:
- David Hyatt
- Opened on:
- 2008-04-04
- Description:
The center part of the nine parts of a border image is used as an additional background image. If the designer doesn't want a background image, he has to make that part transparent. That is not so difficult with a reasonable painting program, but an even easier way might be to leave the image opaque and add a keyword to the 'border-image' property. How often does it happen that the center part (and only that part) has to be transparent, how much easier is to add a keyword to the style sheet than to cut out a rectangle in a paint program and what is the cost of learning an extra keyword that you may never use? ----- Reraised by Håkon http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009Jan/0414.html Possible solutions: - Keep the middle part by default (current behavior). Add an ‘empty’ keyword that clips out the middle part. - Make the middle part clip out by default. Add a ‘fill’ keyword that keeps it. (It's needed for stretch-tiling things like aqua buttons.)
- Related Actions Items:
- No related actions
- Related emails:
- [CSSWG] Minutes and Resolutions 2009-04-15 (from fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net on 2009-05-14)
- Re: [css3-background] Issues and Proposed Resolutions (from fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net on 2008-08-11)
- Re: [css3-background] Issues and Proposed Resolutions (from dbaron@dbaron.org on 2008-05-18)
- [css3-background] Issues and Proposed Resolutions (from fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net on 2008-05-13)
- ISSUE-28 (centerless border image): A keyword 'transparent' on 'border-image' to suppress the center image [CSS3 Backgrounds and Borders] (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2008-04-04)
Related notes:
2009-02-13 01:38:33: Rejected Hyatt's proposal for a 'transparent' keyword to suppress the center image. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008May/0148.html [Elika Etemad]
2009-06-09 19:08:19: Center of image now dropped by default, use 'fill' keyword to get it filled in. [Elika Etemad]
Changelog:
2008-04-04 17:50:34: Created issue 'A keyword 'transparent' on 'border-image' to suppress the center image' nickname centerless border image owned by David Hyatt on product CSS3 Backgrounds and Borders, description 'The center part of the nine parts of a border image is used as an additional background image. If the designer doesn't want a background image, he has to make that part transparent. That is not so difficult with a reasonable painting program, but an even easier way might be to leave the image opaque and add a keyword 'transparent' to the 'border-image' property. How often does it happen that the center part (and only that part) has to be transparent, how much easier is to add a 'transparent' keyword to the style sheet than to cut out a rectangle in a paint program and what is the cost of learning an extra keyword that you may never use? ' non-public [Bert Bos]
2008-04-04 17:50:42: Status changed to 'open'
2008-08-11 10:10:33: Status changed to 'raised' [Elika Etemad]
2008-08-22 11:09:44: Status changed to 'closed' [Elika Etemad]
2009-02-13 01:38:33: title changed to 'Add keyword to 'border-image' to suppress the center image' [Elika Etemad]
2009-02-13 01:38:33: Description changed to 'The center part of the nine parts of a border image is used as an additional background image. If the designer doesn't want a background image, he has to make that part transparent. That is not so difficult with a reasonable painting program, but an even easier way might be to leave the image opaque and add a keyword to the 'border-image' property. How often does it happen that the center part (and only that part) has to be transparent, how much easier is to add a keyword to the style sheet than to cut out a rectangle in a paint program and what is the cost of learning an extra keyword that you may never use? ' [Elika Etemad]
2009-02-13 01:38:33: Status changed to 'open' [Elika Etemad]
2009-02-13 01:40:28: Description changed to 'The center part of the nine parts of a border image is used as an additional background image. If the designer doesn't want a background image, he has to make that part transparent. That is not so difficult with a reasonable painting program, but an even easier way might be to leave the image opaque and add a keyword to the 'border-image' property. How often does it happen that the center part (and only that part) has to be transparent, how much easier is to add a keyword to the style sheet than to cut out a rectangle in a paint program and what is the cost of learning an extra keyword that you may never use? ----- Reraised by Håkon http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2009Jan/0414.html Possible solutions: - Keep the middle part by default (current behavior). Add an ‘empty’ keyword that clips out the middle part. - Make the middle part clip out by default. Add a ‘fill’ keyword that keeps it. (It's needed for stretch-tiling things like aqua buttons.) ' [Elika Etemad]
2009-06-09 19:09:24: Status changed to 'closed' [Elika Etemad]