text formatting in footer boxes

[aausch]

this chunk of CSS:

@page{      
   @bottom-center {
    content: "Some content <i>Some italic content</i>  Some other content";
  }
}

should probably generate text that looks like so:

Some content Some italic content Some other content

instead of the attached image:

[SimonSapin]

No, it should not. String values in the content property are just text, definitely not HTML.

I agree that something similar should be possible, we just don’t yet have a good solution. And HTML in CSS string is not it. What you can try is to work around this by using multiple page-margin boxes, eg. combine @bottom-left, @bottom-center and @bottom-right, and tweaking widths and margins.

[aausch]

Right. It would be unusual behaviour to have the content string interpreted as html.

I'm looking at some fairly complex footers, and just the three bottom page-margin boxes aren't enough to handle all of the formatting.

Is there any direction you'd suggest for implementing this? If it's not too much work, I can take a crack at implementing it

[SimonSapin]

It’s not about doing the implementation work, it’s about coming up with a good design for a new CSS feature. These discussions happen on the www-style@w3.org mailing list, but to be honest the Working Group is not actively working on Paged Media at the moment :/

[liZe]

Workarounds available in #92. I close this "bug" as we can consider it as a duplicate of #92.