# Spec proposal: harmonize compact, compact-n, horizontal, horizontal-compact appearances

**URL:** <https://forum.getodk.org/t/spec-proposal-harmonize-compact-compact-n-horizontal-horizontal-compact-appearances/15565>\
**Category:** Development\
**Tags:** odk-xforms\
**Created:** [October 9, 2018, 7:55pm UTC](https://forum.getodk.org/t/spec-proposal-harmonize-compact-compact-n-horizontal-horizontal-compact-appearances/15565 "2018-10-09T19:55:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![LN](https://getodk.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.getodk.org/ln/32/1605_2.png) [@LN](https://forum.getodk.org/u/LN)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2019, 11:08pm UTC](https://forum.getodk.org/t/spec-proposal-harmonize-compact-compact-n-horizontal-horizontal-compact-appearances/15565/23 "2019-05-16T23:08:14Z")

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Let's not beat this poor dead horse any more. I searched for `columns-flex` in [https://github.com/enketo/enketo-core](https://github.com/enketo/enketo-core) where I'm pretty sure it would be defined and it's not there which suggests Enketo has not gotten this change yet.

@martijnr is the one who suggested `columns` and `columns-flex` [here](https://github.com/XLSForm/xlsform.github.io/issues/125#issuecomment-426724567) so let's go with how he described them there which is option 1 above. I have edited my post [here](https://forum.getodk.org/t/spec-proposal-harmonize-compact-compact-n-horizontal-horizontal-compact-appearances/15565/13) to try to minimize confusion (hah).

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