Fixing CSS positioning and scaling

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Published on 2010-06-02T13:37:17Z Indexed on 2010/06/02 13:54 UTC
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I was contemplating writing a UI toolkit where setting the position and size of an element/widget was intuitive and powerful. Here are some examples of how it would be used (not currently implemented):

ui("Panel").size(". 40").pos("0 0").attach(element);
ui("Textarea").size(". %-10").pos("0 40").attach(element);
ui("Panel").size(". 10").pos("0 bottom+5");

Where . means auto, % means 100% and the possibility to add pixels to percentages.

Does anything like said exist (even as a jQuery plugin or something)? Somethings just aren't possible with pure CSS.

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