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<h1>CSS Overflow Module Level 4</h1>
<pre class="metadata">
Status: ED
Work Status: Exploring
ED: https://drafts.csswg.org/css-overflow-4/
Shortname: css-overflow
Group: csswg
Level: 4
TR: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-overflow-4/
Previous version: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-overflow-3/
Editor: L. David Baron, Mozilla, http://dbaron.org/
Editor: Florian Rivoal, On behalf of Bloomberg, florian@rivoal.net, http://florian.rivoal.net/
Abstract: This module contains the features of CSS relating to new mechanisms of overflow handling in visual media (e.g., screen or paper). In interactive media, it describes features that allow the overflow from a fixed size container to be handled by pagination (displaying one page at a time). It also describes features, applying to all visual media, that allow the contents of an element to be spread across multiple fragments, allowing the contents to flow across multiple regions or to have different styles for different fragments.
!Change Log: <a href="https://hg.csswg.org/drafts/log/tip/css-overflow/Overview.bs">from 27 January 2015 to the present</a>
!Change Log: <a href="https://hg.csswg.org/drafts/log/tip/css-overflow/Overview.src.html">from 28 March 2013 to 27 January 2015</a>
!Change Log: <a href="https://hg.csswg.org/drafts/log/tip/css3-overflow/Overview.src.html">from 31 July 2012 to 27 March 2013</a>
Ignored Terms: display-inside, display-outside
</pre>
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<pre class="link-defaults">
spec:css-transforms-1; type:property; text:transform-style
type: dfn; spec:css-multicol-1; text:overflow column
</pre>
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<pre class="anchors">
url: https://www.w3.org/TR/2008/CR-css3-marquee-20081205/#the-overflow-style; type: property; text: overflow-style;
url: https://drafts.csswg.org/selectors-3/#subject; type: dfn; text: subject;
url: https://drafts.csswg.org/css-containment/#propdef-contain; type: property; text: contain
url: https://drafts.csswg.org/css-containment/#paint-containment; type: dfn; text: paint containment
</pre>
<style>
table.source-demo-pair {
width: 100%;
}
.in-cards-demo {
width: 13em;
height: 8em;
padding: 4px;
border: medium solid blue;
margin: 6px;
font: medium/1.3 Times New Roman, Times, serif;
white-space: nowrap;
}
.bouncy-columns-demo {
width: 6em;
height: 10em;
float: left;
margin: 1em;
font: medium/1.25 Times New Roman, Times, serif;
white-space: nowrap;
}
.bouncy-columns-demo.one {
background: aqua; color: black;
transform: rotate(-3deg);
}
.bouncy-columns-demo.two {
background: yellow; color: black;
transform: rotate(3deg);
}
.article-font-inherit-demo {
font: 1em/1.25 Times New Roman, Times, serif;
white-space: nowrap;
}
.article-font-inherit-demo.one {
width: 12em;
font-size: 1.5em;
margin-bottom: 1em;
height: 4em;
}
.article-font-inherit-demo.two {
width: 11em;
margin-left: 5em;
margin-right: 2em;
}
.dark-columns-demo {
width: 6em;
height: 10em;
float: left;
margin-right: 1em;
font: medium/1.25 Times New Roman, Times, serif;
white-space: nowrap;
}
.dark-columns-demo.one {
background: aqua; color: black;
}
.dark-columns-demo.one :link {
color: blue;
}
.dark-columns-demo.one :visited {
color: purple;
}
.dark-columns-demo.two {
background: navy; color: white;
}
.dark-columns-demo.two :link {
color: aqua;
}
.dark-columns-demo.two :visited {
color: fuchsia;
}
.article-max-lines-demo {
font: 1em/1.25 Times New Roman, Times, serif;
white-space: nowrap;
}
.article-max-lines-demo.one::first-letter {
font-size: 2em;
line-height: 0.9;
}
.article-max-lines-demo.one {
font-size: 1.5em;
width: 16em;
}
.article-max-lines-demo.two {
width: 11.5em;
float: left; margin-right: 1em;
}
.article-max-lines-demo.three {
width: 11.5em;
float: left;
}
</style>
<p>
</p>
<h2 id="intro">
Introduction</h2>
<p>
In CSS Level 1 [[CSS1]], placing more content than would fit
inside an element with a specified size
was generally an authoring error.
Doing so caused the content to extend
outside the bounds of the element,
which would likely cause
that content to overlap with other elements.
</p>
<p>
CSS Level 2 [[CSS21]] introduced the 'overflow' property,
which allows authors to have overflow be handled by scrolling,
which means it is no longer an authoring error.
It also allows authors to specify
that overflow is handled by clipping,
which makes sense when the author's intent
is that the content not be shown.
</p>
<p>
However, scrolling is not the only way
to present large amounts of content,
and may even not be the optimal way.
After all, the codex replaced the scroll
as the common format for large written works
because of its advantages.
</p>
<p>
This specification introduces
a mechanism for Web pages to specify
that an element of a page should handle overflow
through pagination rather than through scrolling.
</p>
<p>
This specification also extends the concept of overflow
in another direction.
Instead of requiring that authors specify a single area
into which the content of an element must flow,
this specification allows authors to specify multiple fragments,
each with their own dimensions and styles,
so that the content of the element can flow from one to the next,
using as many as needed to place the content without overflowing.
</p>
<p>
In both of these cases, implementations must
break the content in the block-progression dimension.
Implementations must do this is described
in the CSS Fragmentation Module [[!CSS3-BREAK]].
</p>
<h2 id="overflow-concepts">Types of overflow</h2>
<p>
CSS uses the term <dfn>overflow</dfn> to describe
the contents of a box
that extend outside that one of that box's edges
(i.e., its <i>content edge</i>, <i>padding edge</i>,
<i>border edge</i>, or <i>margin edge</i>).
The overflow might be described as the elements or features
that cause this overflow,
the non-rectangular region occupied by these features,
or, more commonly,
as the minimal rectangle that bounds that region.
A box's overflow is computed based on the boxes and styles
of the box and of all its descendants whose containing block chain
<span class="issue">undefined term?</span>
includes the box.
</p>
<p>
In most cases, any of these types of overflow
can be computed for any box
from the bounds and properties of that box,
and from the overflow (of that type)
of each of its children.
However, this is not always the case; for example,
when ''transform-style: preserve-3d'' [[CSS3-TRANSFORMS]] is used on
some of the children, their descendants with
''transform-style: preserve-3d'' must also be examined.
</p>
<h3 id="ink-overflow">Ink overflow</h3>
<p>
The <dfn id="ink-overflow0">ink overflow</dfn> of a box
is the part of that box and its contents that
creates a visual effect outside of
the box's border box.
</p>
<p>
Since some effects in CSS (for example, the blurs in
'text-shadow' [[CSS3TEXT]] and 'box-shadow' [[CSS3BG]])
do not define what visual extent they cover, the extent
of the <a>ink overflow</a> is undefined.
</p>
<p class="issue">
Should we try to define it at all and just leave pieces undefined?
</p>
<p>
The <dfn>ink overflow region</dfn> is the non-rectangular region
occupied by the <a>ink overflow</a>, and the
<dfn>ink overflow rectangle</dfn> is
the minimal rectangle whose axis is aligned to the box's axes
and contains the <a>ink overflow region</a>.
Note that the <a>ink overflow rectangle</a> is a rectangle
in the box's coordinate system, but might be non-rectangular
in other coordinate systems due to transforms [[CSS3-TRANSFORMS]].
</p>
<h3 id="scrollable-overflow">Scrollable overflow</h3>
<p>
The <dfn id="scrollable-overflow0">scrollable overflow</dfn> of a box is the
set of things extending outside of that box's padding edge
for which a scrolling mechanism needs to be provided.
</p>
<p class="issue">
The following definition should be rewritten to use
the concept of <a href="https://drafts.csswg.org/css-transforms/#3d-rendering-context">3D rendering context</a> [[!CSS3-TRANSFORMS]]
and related terms,
particularly once those concepts stabilize following changes
proposed in the CSS WG meeting on the morning of 2014-01-28.
</p>
<p>
Given the following definitions
<span class="issue">which belong in [[CSS3-TRANSFORMS]]</span>:
</p>
<dl>
<dt><dfn>3d-preserving child</dfn></dt>
<dd>
A child box B of a containing block C is a 3d-preserving
child if it has ''transform-style: preserve-3d''
and the user-agent is not required to flatten it
based on the <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/css3-transforms/#transform-style-property">requirements</a> in [[!CSS3-TRANSFORMS]].
</dt>
<dt><dfn>non-3d-preserving child</dfn></dt>
<dd>
A child C of a box P is a non-3d-preserving-child if
it is not a <a>3d-preserving child</a>.
</dd>
<dt><dfn>3d-preserving descendant</dfn></dt>
<dd>
Box D is a 3d-preserving descendant of box A if A is
an ancestor of D, and D and all of the boxes (if any)
in the containing block chain from D to A
are <a>3d-preserving child</a> boxes.
</dd>
</dl>
<p>The scrollable overflow of a box is the union of the following things,
all adjusted for transforms <span class="issue">undefined concept!</span> into the box's coordinate space:</p>
<ul>
<li>
for the box and all of its <a>3d-preserving descendant</a> boxes:
<ul>
<li>the box's own padding edge (for the box itself) or border edge (for <a>3d-preserving descendant</a> boxes)</li>
<li>the bounds <span class="issue">undefined term!</span> of any text directly in the box</li>
<li><span class="issue">MORE HERE!</span>
</ul>
<li>
for all the <a>non-3d-preserving child</a> boxes of the
box and its <a>3d-preserving descendant</a> boxes,
the scrollable overflow of the box
</li>
</ul>
<p class="issue">
I wrote this definition off the top of my head,
so it can't possibly be right.
It's missing tons of pieces!
</p>
<p class="issue">
The handling of preserve-3d subtrees here is probably wrong;
the elements should probably count
only towards the overflow of the element that flattens them.
</p>
<p>
The <dfn>scrollable overflow region</dfn> is the non-rectangular region
occupied by the <a>scrollable overflow</a>, and the
<dfn>scrollable overflow rectangle</dfn> is
the minimal rectangle whose axis is aligned to the box's axes
and contains the <a>scrollable overflow region</a>.
Note that the <a>scrollable overflow rectangle</a> is a rectangle
in the box's coordinate system, but might be non-rectangular
in other coordinate systems due to transforms [[CSS3-TRANSFORMS]].
</p>
<h3 id="border-box-overflow">Border box overflow</h3>
<p class="issue">
This concept has been proposed for some uses, such as for
determining what the 'outline' property goes around, and
as the basis of a coordinate system for specifying clips and masks,
but it's not clear if it's needed.
</p>
<p>
The <dfn>border-box overflow</dfn> of a box is the
union of the box's border edge and the border edges of
the box's descendants.</p>
</p>
<p class="issue">
If needed, define more formally, as for scrollable overflow above.
(Maybe even share the definitions in an appropriate way!)
</p>
<p>
The <dfn>border-box overflow region</dfn> is the non-rectangular region
occupied by the <a>border-box overflow</a>, and the
<dfn>border-box overflow rectangle</dfn> is
the minimal rectangle whose axis is aligned to the box's axes
and contains the <a>border-box overflow region</a>.
Note that the <a>border-box overflow rectangle</a> is a rectangle
in the box's coordinate system, but might be non-rectangular
in other coordinate systems due to transforms [[CSS3-TRANSFORMS]].
</p>
<h2 id="overflow-properties">Overflow properties</h2>
<p>
The 'overflow-x' property specifies
the handling of overflow in the horizontal direction
(i.e., overflow from the left and right sides of the box),
and the 'overflow-y' property specifies the handling
of overflow in the vertical direction
(i.e., overflow from the top and bottom sides of the box)
</p>
<pre class=propdef>
Name: overflow-x, overflow-y
Value: ''visible'' | ''hidden'' | ''clip'' | ''scroll'' | ''auto''
Initial: ''visible''
Applies to: block containers [[!CSS21]], flex containers [[!CSS3-FLEXBOX]], and grid containers [[!CSS3-GRID-LAYOUT]]
Inherited: no
Percentages: N/A
Media: visual
Computed value: see below
Animatable: no
Canonical order: <abbr title="follows order of property value definition">per grammar</abbr>
</pre>
<p>
The 'overflow' property is a shorthand property
that sets the specified values of both 'overflow-x' and 'overflow-y'
to the value specified for 'overflow'.
</p>
<pre class=propdef>
Name: overflow
Value: ''visible'' | ''hidden'' | ''clip'' | ''scroll'' | ''auto''
Initial: see individual properties
Applies to: block containers [[!CSS21]], flex containers [[!CSS3-FLEXBOX]], and grid containers [[!CSS3-GRID-LAYOUT]]
Inherited: no
Percentages: N/A
Media: visual
Computed value: see individual properties
Animatable: no
Canonical order: <abbr title="follows order of property value definition">per grammar</abbr>
</pre>
<div id="overflow-computed-values">
<p>The computed values of 'overflow-x' and 'overflow-y'
are determined from the cascaded values [[!CSS3CASCADE]]
based on the following rules:</p>
<ol>
<li>
If one cascaded values is ''overflow/visible''
and the other is not,
then computed values are the cascaded values
with ''overflow/visible'' changed to ''overflow/auto''.
</li>
<li>
Otherwise, if both cascaded values are ''overflow/visible''
and the computed value of 'contain' is
one that activates <a>paint containment</a>
(e.g. ''contain:strict''
or ''contain: paint''
or ''contain: layout paint''…),
then the computed values of both 'overflow-x' and 'overflow-y'
are changed to ''overflow/clip''.</li>
<li>
Otherwise, the computed values are as specified.
</li>
</ol>
</div>
<p>The values of these properties are:</p>
<dl dfn-for="overflow, overflow-x, overflow-y" dfn-type="value">
<dt><dfn>visible</dfn>
<dd>
There is no special handling of overflow, that is, it
may be rendered outside the block container.
</dd>
<dt><dfn>hidden</dfn>
<dd>This value indicates that
the content is clipped and that no scrolling user interface should be provided by the UA
to view the content outside the clipping region.
However, the content may still be scrolled programatically,
for example using the mechanisms defined in [[CSSOM-VIEW]].
<dt><dfn>clip</dfn>
<dd>Like ''hidden'',
this value indicates that
the content is clipped
and that no scrolling user interface should be provided by the UA
to view the content outside the clipping region.
In addition, unlike ''overflow: hidden''
which still allows programmatic scrolling,
''overflow: clip'' forbids scrolling entirely,
through any mechanism.
Issue: Mozilla implements -moz-hidden-unscrollable,
which is similar to ''clip'',
except that it does not cause the element to establish a BFC.
Should we match that?
<dt><dfn>scroll</dfn>
<dd>This value indicates that the content is clipped
and that if the user agent uses a scrolling mechanism
that is visible on the screen (such as a scroll bar or a panner),
that mechanism should be displayed for a box
whether or not any of its content is clipped.
This avoids any problem with scrollbars appearing
and disappearing in a dynamic environment.
When this value is specified and the target medium is ''print'',
overflowing content may be printed.
<dt><dfn>auto</dfn>
<dd>The behavior of the ''overflow/auto'' value is user agent-dependent,
but should cause a scrolling mechanism to be provided for overflowing boxes.
</dl>
Even if 'overflow' is set to ''overflow/visible'',
content may be clipped to a UA's document window by the native operating environment.
If the computed value of 'overflow' is not ''overflow/visible'',
the element creates a block formatting context.
UAs must apply the 'overflow' property
set on the root element to the viewport.
HTML UAs must instead apply the ‘overflow’ property
from the <{body}> element to the viewport
if the value on the root element is ''visible''.
The ''visible'' value when used for the viewport
must be interpreted as ''overflow/auto''.
The element from which the value is propagated
must have a used value for 'overflow' of ''visible''.
In the case of a scrollbar being placed on an edge of the element's box,
it should be inserted between the inner border edge
and the outer padding edge.
Any space taken up by the scrollbars should be
taken out of (subtracted from the dimensions of)
the containing block formed by the element with the scrollbars.
Issue: import examples from [[CSS3-BOX]].
<p class="issue">
Explain which directions allow scrolling and which don't,
as a function of 'direction'
(including propagation of 'direction' to the ICB).
</p>
<p class="issue">
[[CSS3-MARQUEE]] describes an 'overflow-style' property,
but it has not picked up implementation experience
that the working group is aware of.
Should this document treat 'overflow-style' as a defunct proposal,
or should this document describe the 'overflow-style' property
and attempt to revive it,
despite that implementations have implemented
'overflow-x' and 'overflow-y' instead?
</p>
<h2 id="fragmentation">Fragmentation of overflow</h2>
The 'continue' property gives authors the ability
to request that content that does not fit inside an element
be fragmented (in the sense of [[!CSS3-BREAK]]),
and provides alternatives
for where the remaining content should continue.
Notably, this property explains traditional pagination,
and extends it further.
<pre class=propdef>
Name: continue
Value: ''auto'' | ''overflow'' | ''paginate'' | ''fragments'' | ''discard''
Initial: auto
Applies to: block containers [[!CSS21]], flex containers [[!CSS3-FLEXBOX]], and grid containers [[!CSS3-GRID-LAYOUT]]
Inherited: no
Percentages: N/A
Media: visual
Computed value: see below
Animatable: no
Canonical order: <abbr title="follows order of property value definition">per grammar</abbr>
</pre>
Issue: The naming of this property and its values is preliminary.
This was initially proposed as
"fragmentation: auto | none | break | clone | page"
in <a href="https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2015Jan/0357.html">https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2015Jan/0357.html</a>,
and there is not yet wide agreement as to which naming is better.
Issue: This property is meant to generalize and replace 'region-fragment'.
Once it is sufficiently stable in this specification,
'region-fragment' should be removed from the regions specification in favor of this.
Note: ''continue: fragments'' replaces "overflow:fragments"
from earlier versions of this specification,
while ''continue: paginate'' replaces "overflow: paged-x | paged-y | paged-x-controls | paged-y-controls"
<dl dfn-for="continue" dfn-type="value">
<dt><dfn>auto</dfn>
<dd>''continue/auto'' may only occur as a computed value
if the element is a <a spec="css-regions">CSS Region</a>
other than the last one in a <a spec="css-regions">region chain</a>.
Content that doesn't fit is pushed to the next region of the chain.
In all other cases, ''continue/auto'' computes to one of the other values.
<dt><dfn>overflow</dfn>
<dd>Content that doesn't fit overflows, according to the 'overflow' property
<dt><dfn>discard</dfn>
<dd>Content that doesn't fit is discarded at a fragmentation break
Note: generalized from region-fragment: break; on the last region of a region chain
Issue: When the element isn't a <a spec="css-break">fragmentation container</a> already,
should this work by turning it directly into one,
or by creating a <a>fragment box</a> inside it like ''continue/fragments'' does?
<dt><dfn>paginate</dfn>
<dd>Content that doesn't fit paginates.
This creates a paginated view inside the element
similar to the way that 'overflow: scroll' creates a scrollable view.
See <a href="#paginated-overflow">paginated overflow</a>
Note: Print is effectively "continue: paginate" on the root.
<dt><dfn>fragments</dfn>
<dd>content that doesn't fit causes the element to copy itself and continue laying out.
See <a href="#fragment-overflow">fragment overflow</a>.
</dl>
The computed value of the 'continue' for a given element or pseudo element is determined as follow:
<ol>
<li>If the specified value is ''continue/auto''
<ol>
<li>On a <a spec="css-regions">CSS Region</a> other than the last one in a <a spec="css-regions">region chain</a>,
the computed value is ''continue/auto''
<li>On a page
the computed value is ''continue/paginate''
<li>On a <a>fragment box</a>
the computed value is ''continue/fragments''
<li>Otherwise, the computed value is ''continue/overflow''
</ol>
<li>If the specified value is ''continue/framgents''
<ol>
<li>On a page
the computed value is ''continue/paginate''
<li>Otherwise, the computed value is the specified value
</ol>
<li>In all other cases, the computed value is the specified value
</ol>
Issue: If we introduce a pseudo element that can select columns in a multicol,
we would need to specify that auto computes to auto on it,
or introduce a new value and have auto compute to that
(but what would that value compute to on things that aren't columns?).
Note: For background discussions leading to this property, see these threads:
<a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012May/1197.html">discussion of overflow, overflow-x, overflow-y and overflow-style</a> and
<a href="https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2015Jan/0357.html">proposal for a fragmentation property</a>
<h2 id="paginated-overflow">Paginated overflow</h2>
This section introduces and defines the meaning of the ''continue/paginate'' value of the 'continue' property.
Issue: Write this section
Issue: Pages should be possible to style with @page rules. How does that work for nested pages?
<div class="issue">
Should traditional pagination (e.g. when printing)
be expressed through some magic in the computed value of ''continue/auto'',
or by inserting this in the UA stylesheet:
<pre><code class="lang-css">
@media (overflow-block: paged), (overflow-block: optional-paged) {
:root {
continue: paginate;
}
}
</code></pre>
</div>
Issue: Traditional pagination (e.g. when printing) assumes that
:root is contained in the page box,
rather than having the page box be a pseudo element child of :root.
Can we work around that using something similar to fragment boxes?
Or maybe by having a fragment box (reproducing :root) inside a page box inside :root?
Issue: How does the page box model work when it is a child of a regular css box?
Issue: The initial proposal in [[CSS3GCPM]] and implemantation from Opera
used 4 values instead of ''continue/paginate'':
"paged-x | paged-y | paged-x-controls | paged-y-controls".
Should this property also include these values,
or are they better handled as separate properties?
(e.g.: "pagination-layout: auto | horizontal | vertical", "pagination-controls: auto | none")
Issue: Ability to display N pages at once
rather than just one page at once?
Could this be a value of "pagination-layout", such as:
"pagination-layout: horizontal 2;"
Issue: Brad Kemper has proposed a model for combining pagination and
fragment overflow, which also deals with displaying multiple pages.
<a href="http://www.w3.org/mid/FF1704C5-D5C1-4D6F-A99D-0DD094036685@gmail.com">http://www.w3.org/mid/FF1704C5-D5C1-4D6F-A99D-0DD094036685@gmail.com</a>
<p class="issue">
The current implementation of paginated overflow uses
the 'overflow'/'overflow-x'/'overflow-y' properties
rather than the 'overflow-style' property as proposed
in the [[CSS3GCPM]] draft
(which also matches the [[CSS3-MARQUEE]] proposal).
or the 'continue' property as described here.
</p>
<h2 id="fragment-overflow">Fragment overflow</h2>
This section introduces and defines the meaning of
the ''continue/fragments'' value of the 'continue' property.
<p>
When the computed value of 'continue' for an element is ''continue/fragments'',
and implementations would otherwise have created a box for the element,
then implementations must create a sequence of <dfn>fragment box</dfn>es
for that element.
(It is possible for an element with ''continue: fragments''
to generate only one <a>fragment box</a>.
However, if an element's computed 'continue' is not ''continue/fragments'',
then its box is not a <a>fragment box</a>.)
Every <a>fragment box</a> is a fragmentation container,
and any overflow
that would cause that fragmentation container to fragment
causes another <a>fragment box</a> created as a next sibling
of the previous one.
<span class="issue">Or is it as though it's a next sibling of
the element? Need to figure out exactly how this interacts with
other box-level fixup.</span>
Additionally, if the <a>fragment box</a> is also
a multi-column box (as defined in [[!CSS3COL]]
<span class="issue">though it defines <i>multi-column element</i></span>)
any content that would lead to the creation of <a>overflow columns</a> [[!CSS3COL]]
instead is flown into an additional fragment box.
However, fragment boxes may themselves be broken
(due to fragmentation in a fragmentation context outside of them,
such as pages, columns, or other fragment boxes);
such breaking leads to fragments of the same fragment box
rather than multiple fragment boxes.
(This matters because fragment boxes may be styled by their index;
such breaking leads to multiple fragments of a fragment box
with a single index.
This design choice is so that
breaking a fragment box across pages does not break
the association of indices to particular pieces of content.)
<span class="issue">Should a forced break that breaks to
an outer fragmentation context cause a new fragment of a single
fragment box or a new fragment box?</span>
<span class="issue">Should we find a term other than
<a>fragment box</a> here to make this a little less confusing?</span>
</p>
<p class="issue">
What if we want to be able to style the pieces of an element
split within another type of fragmentation context?
These rules prevent ever using ''::nth-fragment()'' for that,
despite that the name seems the most logical name for such a feature.
</p>
<div class="example">
<table class="source-demo-pair"><tr><td><pre><!DOCTYPE HTML>
<title>Breaking content into
equal-sized cards</title>
<style>
.in-cards {
continue: fragments;
width: 13em;
height: 8em;
padding: 4px;
border: medium solid blue;
margin: 6px;
font: medium/1.3 Times New
Roman, Times, serif;
}
</style>
<div class="in-cards">
In this example, the text in the div
is broken into a series of cards.
These cards all have the same style.
The presence of enough content to
overflow one of the cards causes
another one to be created. The second
card is created just like it's the
next sibling of the first.
</div></pre></td><td>
<div class="in-cards-demo">In this example, the text in the<br>div is broken into a series of<br>cards. These cards all have the<br>same style. The presence of<br>enough content to overflow<br>one of the cards causes another</div>
<div class="in-cards-demo">one to be created. The second<br>card is created just like it's the<br>next sibling of the first.</div>
</td></tr></table>
</div>
<p class="issue">
We should specify that ''continue: fragments'' does not apply
to at least some table parts,
and perhaps other elements as well.
We need to determine exactly which ones.
</p>
<p class="issue">
This specification needs to say which type of
fragmentation context is created
so that it's clear which values of the 'break-*' properties
cause breaks within this context.
We probably want ''break-*: region'' to apply.
</p>
<p class="issue">
This specification needs a processing model
that will apply in cases where the layout containing the
fragments has characteristics that use the intrinsic size of the fragments
to change the amount of space available for them,
such as [[CSS3-GRID-LAYOUT]].
There has already been some work on such a processing model
in [[CSS3-REGIONS]],
and the work done on a model there,
and the editors of that specification,
should inform what happens in this specification.
</p>
<h3 id="fragment-styling">Fragment styling</h3>
<h4 id="fragment-pseudo-element">The ::nth-fragment() pseudo-element</h4>
<p>
The <dfn selector>::nth-fragment()</dfn> pseudo-element
is a pseudo-element
that describes some of the <a>fragment box</a>es generated by an element.
The argument to the pseudo-element takes the same syntax
as the argument to the :nth-child() pseudo-class
defined in [[!SELECT]], and has the same meaning
except that the number is relative to
<a>fragment box</a>es generated by the element
instead of siblings of the element.
</p>
<p class="note">
Selectors that allow addressing fragments
by counting from the end rather than the start
are intentionally not provided.
Such selectors would interfere with determining
the number of fragments.
</p>
<p class="issue">
Depending on future discussions,
this ''::nth-fragment(<var>an+b</var>)'' syntax
may be replaced with
the new ''::fragment:nth(<var>an+b</var>)'' syntax.
</p>
<h4 id="style-of-fragments">Styling of fragments</h4>
<p class="issue">
Should this apply to continue:fragments only,
or also to continue:paginate?
(If it applies,
then stricter property restrictions would be needed
for continue:paginate.)
</p>
<p>
In the absence of rules with ''::nth-fragment()'' pseudo-elements,
the computed style for each <a>fragment box</a>
is the computed style for the element
for which the <a>fragment box</a> was created.
However, the style for a <a>fragment box</a> is also influenced
by rules whose selector's <a>subject</a> [[!SELECT]]
has an ''::nth-fragment()'' pseudo-element,
if the 1-based number of the <a>fragment box</a> matches
that ''::nth-fragment()'' pseudo-element
and the selector (excluding the ''::nth-fragment()'' pseudo-element)
matches the element generating the fragments.
</p>
<p>
When determining the style of the <a>fragment box</a>,
these rules that match the fragment pseudo-element
cascade together with the rules that match the element,
with the fragment pseudo-element adding the specificity
of a pseudo-class to the specificity calculation.
<span class="issue">Does this need to be specified in
the cascading module as well?</span>
</p>
<div class="example">
<table class="source-demo-pair"><tr><td><pre><!DOCTYPE HTML>
<style>
.bouncy-columns {
continue: fragments;
width: 6em;
height: 10em;
float: left;
margin: 1em;
font: medium/1.25 Times New
Roman, Times, serif;
}
.bouncy-columns::nth-fragment(1) {
background: aqua; color: black;
transform: rotate(-3deg);
}
.bouncy-columns::nth-fragment(2) {
background: yellow; color: black;
transform: rotate(3deg);
}
</style>
<div class="bouncy-columns">
<i>...</i>
</div></pre></td><td>
<div class="bouncy-columns-demo one">In this<br>example, the<br>text in the div<br>is broken into<br>a series of<br>columns. The<br>author<br>probably</div>
<div class="bouncy-columns-demo two">intended the<br>text to fill two<br>columns. But<br>if it happens to<br>fill three<br>columns, the<br>third column is<br>still created. It</div>
<div class="bouncy-columns-demo">just doesn't<br>have any<br>fragment-specific<br>styling because<br>the author<br>didn't give it<br>any.</div>
</td></tr></table>
</div>
<p>
Styling an ''::nth-fragment()'' pseudo-element with the 'continue'
property does take effect;
if a <a>fragment box</a> has a
computed value of 'continue' other than ''fragments''
then that fragment box is the last fragment.
However, overriding 'continue' on the first fragment
does not cause the <a>fragment box</a> not to exist;
whether there are fragment boxes at all is determined by
the computed value of overflow for the element.
</p>
<p>
Styling an ''::nth-fragment()'' pseudo-element with the 'content'
property has no effect;
the computed value of 'content' for the fragment box
remains the same as the computed value of content for the element.
</p>
<p>
Specifying ''display: none'' for a <a>fragment box</a> causes
the fragment box with that index not to be generated.
However, in terms of the indices
used for matching ''::nth-fragment()'' pseudo-elements
of later fragment boxes,
it still counts as though it was generated.
However, since it is not generated, it does not contain any content.
</p>
<p>
Specifying other values of 'display', 'position',
or 'float' is permitted, but is not allowed to change
the computed value of 'display-inside'.
(Since 'continue' only
applies to block containers, flex containers, and grid containers
the computed value of 'display-inside' is always
''display-inside/block'', ''display-inside/flex'', or
''display-inside/grid''.
<span class="issue">Need to specify exactly how this works,
but it depends on
having 'display-inside' and 'display-outside' specified.</span>
</p>
<p>
To match the model for other pseudo-elements
where the pseudo-elements live inside their corresponding element,
declarations in ''::nth-fragment()'' pseudo-elements override
declarations in rules without the pseudo-element.
The relative priority within such declarations is determined
by normal cascading order (see [[!CSS21]]).
</p>
<p>
Styles specified on ''::nth-fragment()'' pseudo-elements
do affect inheritance to content within the <a>fragment box</a>.
In other words, the content within the <a>fragment box</a> must
inherit from the fragment box's style (i.e., the pseudo-element style)
rather than directly from the element.
This means that elements split between fragment boxes may
have different styles for different parts of the element.
</p>
<p class="issue">
This inheritance rule allows specifying styles indirectly
(by using explicit ''inherit'' or using default inheritance
on properties that don't apply to ''::first-letter'')
that can't be specified directly
(based on the rules in the next section).
This is a problem.
The restrictions that apply to styling inside fragments
should also apply to inheritance from fragments.
</p>
<div class="example">
<table class="source-demo-pair"><tr><td><pre><!DOCTYPE HTML>
<style>
.article {
continue: fragments;
}
.article::nth-fragment(1) {
font-size: 1.5em;
margin-bottom: 1em;
height: 4em;
}
.article::nth-fragment(2) {
margin-left: 5em;
margin-right: 2em;
}
</style>
<div class="article">
The <code>font-size</code> property<i>...</i>
</div></pre></td><td>
<div class="article-font-inherit-demo one">The <code>font-size</code> property<br>specified on the fragment<br>is inherited into the</div>
<div class="article-font-inherit-demo two">descendants of the fragment.<br>This means that inherited<br>properties can be used<br>reliably on a fragment, as in<br>this example.</div>
</td></tr></table>
</div>
<h4 id="style-in-fragments">Styling inside fragments</h4>
<p class="issue">
Should this apply to continue:fragments only,
or also to continue:paginate?
</p>
<p>
The ''::nth-fragment()'' pseudo-element
can also be used to style