- From: Phillips, Addison <addison@lab126.com>
- Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 13:33:38 -0400
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- CC: "Aharon (Vladimir) Lanin" <aharon@google.com>, Ambrose LI <ambrose.li@gmail.com>, Alan Gresley <alan@css-class.com>, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, Bert Bos <bert@w3.org>, W3C style mailing list <www-style@w3.org>, Adil Allawi <adil@diwan.com>, "public-i18n-bidi@w3.org" <public-i18n-bidi@w3.org>
> > > > For clarity, could you spell out what combination of proposed > attributes defines each of the above? > > The first is > <ul dir=ltr> > <li>hello</li> > <li dir=rtl>HELLO</li> > </ul> > > The second is > <ul dir=ltr> > <li>hello</li> > <li><span dir=rtl>HELLO</span></li> > </ul> > (Actually, because this case is pure rtl text, the span isn't > necessary. But if there is mixed text that could confuse the bidi > algorithm, such that you want to mark all of it as rtl, you need to > use the span as I have above.) > > The third and fourth are the same as the first and second, > respectively, just with the <ul> set to a shrinkwrap width through > some mechanism (such as floating, or being a table cell). > Right, but Aharon is proposing CSS to achieve these effects (and possibly avoid the shrinkwrap, no?) and I'm curious to see how he would propose the frozen 'text-align' to operate. Addison
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