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Bug 16007 - align values: start/end vs. before/after
Summary: align values: start/end vs. before/after
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: CSS
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Flexbox (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Windows NT
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tab Atkins Jr.
QA Contact: public-css-bugzilla
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Reported: 2012-02-16 21:43 UTC by Alex Mogilevsky
Modified: 2012-06-07 20:11 UTC (History)
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Description Alex Mogilevsky 2012-02-16 21:43:21 UTC
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Feb/0744.html

both flexbox and grid use start/end for alignment values, while it would be more consistent with flow terminology to use before/after in cross direction (flexbox) and in column direction (grid)
Comment 1 Tab Atkins Jr. 2012-06-07 20:11:57 UTC
After discussion, decided that it doesn't make sense to use the flow-relative terms at all, since flexboxes can flow in *any* direction.

Instead, we're using flex-start/end for all the alignment properties.