Re: [css-writing-modes] Does not mention "auto" for the "direction" property from Lina Kemmel on 2016-09-29 (www-international@w3.org from July to September 2016)

From: Lina Kemmel <LKEMMEL@il.ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 17:52:15 +0300
To: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
Cc: "Martin J. Dürst" <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>, www-international@w3.org
Message-Id: <OF938D4C2A.D6358793-ONC225803D.00505BD4-C225803D.0051B061@notes.na.collabserv.c>

> On 2016/09/27 11:35, fantasai wrote:
>
>> On 09/26/2016 11:06 PM, Martin J. Dürst wrote:
>>
>> For 2) and 3), I agree. But is CSS these days limited to HTML?
>
> No, but directional information belongs in the markup, regardless of
> whether it's HTML, as, like lang tags and subtags, it is a matter of
> describing the content.

However, it seems like the 'dir' attribute is only standardized for HTML. 
Am I wrong?

Regards, Lina

Received on Thursday, 29 September 2016 14:52:48 UTC