- From: Nolan Clark <nolanc@ischool.washington.edu>
- Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 16:19:08 -0700
- To: "'www-style@w3.org'" <www-style@w3.org>
Granted, CSS2 lacks a simple method to vertically center content, but the horizontal centering works very well. It does not make sense to add centering support to CSS, because that functionality is already built into the horizontal part of the box model. The most logical thing to do would be to extend the box model so vertical formatting worked exactly like horizontal formatting. Then you could easily center content both horizontally and vertically like this: <div style="with:100px; height:100px"> <div style="margin:auto"> content </div> </div> This would be a very minor extension to CSS2, but it could be very difficult to actually implement in a browser (something I have no experience with). -----Original Message----- | What I want to know is, why is there not a (extremely simple) way for me | to horizontally and vertically center the text, contained within the inner | DIV, 'whole2'? --- Vadim Plessky <lucy-ples@mtu-net.ru> wrote: 1) Because people writing CSS specs forgot to include it :-) 2) because we (you and me) were not here when CSS2 specification was in developemnt ;-)) IMO, it needs a fix. Let's get CSS 2.1 with this thing fixed in hands!
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