[css-backgrounds-4] Background origin for x and y axes
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Description
It would be useful to have background-origin-x and background-origin-y properties, similarly to background-position-x and background-position-y.
Consider this example:
<input class="with-icon">
input
{
padding: 20px;
}
/* old way */
.with-icon
{
padding-left: 40px; /* icon will be placed within this left padding */
background: no-repeat 14px 50%/auto 60% url('image.svg'); /* icon size has magic numbers */
}
/* new way */
.with-icon
{
padding-left: 40px;
background: no-repeat 14px 50%/auto contain url('image.svg'); /* icon size is relative to content area of the input */
background-origin-y: content-box;
}
We can't use simply background-origin here, because the background position of the icon would we within the content boundaries of the input, and thus would require to have negative numbers.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reviewing the existing background-position-x and background-position-y definitions, then compare their behavior with the background-origin proposal in this issue. Determine whether separate x and y origin properties fit the CSS Backgrounds specification; completion requires an agreed specification change and corresponding wording.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- css
- Domain
- frontend, web-dev
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100