Day 73: size container features

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In my previous posts about size container features I’ve only used the min-width feature, but there’s actually more you can query.

container-type: inline-size establishes size containment only on the inline axis. There is no block-size option because it wasn’t possible for browsers to implement, but there is a size option, which establishes size containment on both dimensions of the container. According to Miriam Suzanne, you should be careful using this option because I may cause side effects, but it allows you to query more than just the width/inline-size.

orientation

You can query the orientation of the container. If the height is larger than the width, the orientation is portrait. If the width is larger than the height, it's landscape.

.container {
  border: 8px solid aqua;
  container-type: size;

  width: 10rem;
  height: 15rem;
}

.container2 {
  width: 15rem;
  height: 10rem;
}

.child {
  aspect-ratio: 1;
  width: 5rem;
  border: 4px solid;
  color: red;
}

@container (orientation: portrait) {
  .child {
    background: currentColor;
  }
}
<div class="container">
  <div class="child"></div>
</div>

<div class="container container2">
  <div class="child"></div>
</div>

aspect-ratio

.container3 {
  width: 10rem;
  height: 10rem;
}

.container4 {
  width: 10rem;
  height: 5.625rem;
  box-sizing: content-box;
}

@container (aspect-ratio: 1 / 1) {
  .child {
    background: blue;
  }
}

@container (aspect-ratio: 16 / 9) {
  .child {
    background: green;
  }
}

height

You can also query the height.

@container (min-height: 14rem) {
  .child {
    background: fuchsia;
  }
}

logical properties

Instead of width you can also use inline-size in your queries and instead of height you can use block-size.

@container (min-block-size: 14rem) {
  .sample4 .child {
    background: aqua;
  }
}

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