[css-contain-3] container-type syntax implies you might need multiple values

[mirisuzanne]

Currently, the formal syntax for container-type is:

normal || [ size | inline-size ]

This implies you might want to use normal along side either size or inline-size. The only reason to do that would be if inline-size acted as an override to the normal behavior - in which case authors would need to re-assert normal inline-size as a way to query both styles and sizes of the container. But as far as I can tell, that's not the behavior described in the spec, or the desired behavior, or the way things work with the Chrome prototype of style queries. Instead, a container type of inline-size normal behaves the same as a container type of inline-size.

I think we should probably change the syntax to:

normal | size | inline-size

But, alternately, we could just add a note to clarify how this works.

[Loirooriol]

Mm, already fixed in #7669? https://drafts.csswg.org/css-contain-3/#container-type

[mirisuzanne]

ha, you're right. thanks