Re: Horizontal Alignment Inheritance

On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, fantasai wrote:
>
> Should text-align inheritance break on a table?

Not by default. However the UA's stylesheet may do so for HTML tables,
with a rule such as:

   table { text-align: left; }

...or some such.


> There doesn't seem to be any way of nulling text-align inheritance;
> I mean, setting the alignment to the default for that writing
> direction, as if there had been no alignment set in any of the
> element's ancestors.

CSS3 is likely to provide a value to do something like that, with
i18n-safe versions of 'left' and 'right'.

-- 
Ian Hickson                                     )\     _. - ._.)       fL
Netscape, Standards Compliance QA              /. `- '  (  `--'
+1 650 937 6593                                `- , ) -  > ) \
irc.mozilla.org:Hixie _________________________  (.' \) (.' -' __________