Re: [CSS21] bidi, text-align, and list markers

Adil Allawi wrote:
> I think there is a need to control, through CSS, of the bullet 
> alignment separately from the text align and a new value (for want of 
> a better name) 'match-dir' to give the alignment based on the dir 
> attribute of the <li> element as follows:
>
> For a list starting with <ul dir="ltr"><li>hello</li> :
>
> 1. <li dir="rtl" style="text-align:match-dir; 
> bullet-align:match-dir">HELLO gives:
>
> * hello
>                   OLLEH *
>
> 2. <li dir="rtl" style="text-align:match-dir; 
> bullet-align:match-parent">HELLO gives:
>
> * hello
> *                 OLLEH
>
> 4. <li style="text-align:match-parent; bullet-align:match-dir">HELLO 
> (with no styles) gives:
> * hello
>   OLLEH *
>
>   
Shouldn't that be:
* hello
  OLLEH                                *
?

Shachar

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Shachar Shemesh
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Received on Saturday, 5 June 2010 20:06:17 UTC