- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 09:44:44 +0100
- To: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, "Markus Mielke" <mmielke@windows.microsoft.com>, www-style@w3.org
On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 07:25:27 +0100, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net> wrote: > Markus Mielke wrote: >> *Problem:* >> Allow centering of content within a containing block. Today, we only >> have text-align: center available that only applies to text and inline >> elements. This makes general centering of elements (like images) really >> difficult. >> *Proposal: * >> It would actually be better to create a new property ... > > I've written this up for the wiki here: > http://csswg.inkedblade.net/ideas/centering > There are a number of open issues. I'll paste the summary below, with my > suggestions in **. > > [...] I think it would be good if one of these features exactly matches the behavior of <center>. (I thought that was the idea behind the proposal, at least for some proponents.) It seems that WebKit and Gecko have implemented that as text-align:-webkit-center and text-align:-moz-center respectively. Maybe we should introduce block-center as a value for text-align. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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