- From: Staffan Måhlén <staffan.mahlen@comhem.se>
- Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 19:00:28 +0200
- To: "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>, www-style@w3.org
- CC: www-style@w3.org
On 31 May 2005 at 17:54, L. David Baron wrote:
> This is actually an HTML issue rather than a CSS issue, since the
> behavior of HTML's align attribute on divs (the way it affects blocks or
> tables that don't fill the width of their container) can't be described
> in CSS.
I'm not so sure about the first bit of that sentence. Perhaps CSS
should have something like this:
'block-align'
Value: left | right | center | auto
Initial: auto
Applies to: block level elements in normal flow that have
neither right nor left margins.
Inherited: yes
Percentages: N/A
Media: visual
Computed value: as specified
Reasons for could be:
- It seems to be an intuitive author feature as suggested by the
amount of usage of legacy HTML constructs such as <center> and <td
align="..">.
- It would supply a clear description for UA:s of how to handle the
backwards compatibility conflict (overriding 'text-align' and/or its
values like some do dosen't seem like a good solution).
Reasons against:
- It is "yet another feature".
- It would clash with 'margin' (which is a "for" reason as well since
it would clarify that implemenations that does not resolve the
conflict are in error).
I think such a property should not work only on the descendants, but
on the element it was specified as well.
/Staffan
Received on Wednesday, 1 June 2005 17:00:33 UTC