- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 20:16:35 -0400
- To: Philip & Le Khanh <Philip-and-LeKhanh@Royal-Tunbridge-Wells.Org>, www-style@w3.org
Philip & Le Khanh wrote: > I'm leaping in here without doing the necessary > background reading, but is it certain that > >>> <length> >>> A length L aligns the top left corner of the image a distance >>> L to the right of (for horizontal) or below (for vertical) the >>> top left corner of the element's padding box. For example, a >>> value pair of '2cm 1cm' ... padding box. > > is invariably correct ? What is worrying me is that there is > an intrinsic left-to-right assumption here, and I wonder whether > there may exist some other CSS property which could override > this directionality (for example, when using CSS to affect Arabic > or Hebrew material). Yes, that is true. But this is how it works in CSS2. If we wanted to allow positioning wrt the top right corner, we'd have to introduce a new property or keyword in CSS3. ~fantasai
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