- From: Gordon Worley <redbird@orlando.crosswinds.net>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 09:38:52 -0500 (EST)
- To: David Birdsall <D.Birdsall@herts.ac.uk>, www-html <www-html@w3.org>
David Birdsall wrote: >Does the <div> tag allow you to format text, so that it is justified >across the page, instead of the usual left, right and centre alignments? No. It does not exist (at least to my knowledge, and if it does it shouldn't) because the DIV element was designed for use with CSS. Since CSS would be doing all of the formating, why should the DIV element be given more attributes to become redundent. Text alignment tags have been deprecated from HTML to seperate between structure and appearence. This is also why we are moving into XML. >If there isn't, I think it would be nicer if there was, for readability >and neatness' sake alone. The redundency would make your document all the harder to read. The beauty of CSS is that you only have to define the appearence of somellthing once, so that your HTML represents the structure of your document, making it easier to read. ________________________________________ Red Bird Island Productions Gordon Worley http://www.crosswinds.net/orlando/~redbird/ mailto:redbird@orlando.crosswinds.net
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