{"id":337121,"date":"2021-03-26T14:19:43","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T21:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/?p=337121"},"modified":"2021-03-29T17:12:42","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T00:12:42","slug":"how-to-describe-elements-natural-sizing-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/how-to-describe-elements-natural-sizing-behavior\/","title":{"rendered":"How to describe element&#8217;s natural sizing behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.quirksmode.org\/blog\/archives\/2021\/03\/css_terminology.html\" rel=\"noopener\">PPK<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-default is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>When introducing width and height I explain that by default width takes as much horizontal space as it can, while height takes as little vertical space as possible. This leads to a discussion of these two opposed models that I excerpt below.<br><br>My question is: which names do I give to these models?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The three options:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>inside-out <\/strong>and<strong> outside-in<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>context-based <\/strong>and<strong> content-based<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>extrinsic <\/strong>and<strong> intrinsic size<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>There is more context in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quirksmode.org\/blog\/archives\/2021\/03\/css_terminology.html\" rel=\"noopener\">the post<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I definitely don&#8217;t like inside-out and outside-in \u2014 they make my head spin. I think I&#8217;m gonna vote for extrinsic and intrinsic size. I hear those terms thrown around a lot more lately and the fact that they match the specs is something I like. At the same time, I do feel like context-based and content-based are maybe a smidge more clear, but since they are already abstracted and made up, might as well go with the abstracted and made up term that already has legs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PPK: When introducing width and height I explain that by default width takes as much horizontal space as it can, while height takes as little vertical space as possible. This leads to a discussion of these two opposed models that I excerpt below. My question is: which names do I give to these models?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":298590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"sig_custom_text":"","sig_image_type":"featured-image","sig_custom_image":0,"sig_is_disabled":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"c2c_always_allow_admin_comments":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[17],"tags":[1098,1264],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/css-tricks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/percentage-padding-width.png?fit=1200%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337121"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337342,"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337121\/revisions\/337342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}