- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 06:28:05 +0000 (GMT)
- To: www-style@w3.org
> There already exists a way to center content horizontally using the > text-align property and there needs to be a similar property that works This centre justifies from that centres. Horizontal centring is achieved with automatic margins and a defined width. > vertically, which accepts the four values: top, middle (or center?), > bottom and justify. The analogous behaviour to text align would be to align the text in each rendered line in the vertical centre of that line, not to align a whole block. Aligning a block vertically requires a fixed height, removing a degree of freedom, and therefore possibly forcing overflow behaviour when the user overrides the font size. Actually centering frustrates incremental rendering or requires text to moved as it is rendered.
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