Re: Objection to HTMLWG ISSUE-144 Change Proposal #2 (keep u non-conforming)

On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Leif Halvard Silli
<xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no> wrote:
> Actually, I believe it can easily be achieved with CSS:
>
> data:text/html,<!DOCTYPE html><style>div.center{text-align:center}
> div.center *{margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;}</style>
> <div class="center">a
>  <div  style="height: 1em; width: 10em; background: blue">b</div>
>  <div style="height: 1em; width: 20em; background: red" >c
>  <span style="display:inline-block;width:100px;background:yellow"
>>d</span></div></div>
>
> Above I only used divs. But you can change the first <div> into
> <center> and it will look the same. (Thre are no styles for <center> in
> the above example.)

Yes, you can always do specific examples.  But you can't specify the
behavior of <center> entirely in terms of CSS rules that will work for
every document, while matching current browser behavior.  If you think
you can, try it.

> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/rendering.html#align-descendants
>
> I am not able to grok that particular paragraph that you link to there.
> But 4 paragraphs above, <center> - together with <caption>(!) - is
> mentioned and their CSS behaviour is described in clear, CSS terms:
>
> ]] The center element, the caption element unless specified otherwise
> below, and the div, thead, tbody, tfoot, tr, td, and th elements when
> they have an align attribute whose value is an ASCII case-insensitive
> match for either the string "center" or the string "middle", are
> expected to center text within themselves, as if they had their
> 'text-align' property set to 'center' in a presentational hint, and to
> align descendants to the center. [[

They must "align descendants to the center".  That is defined in the
paragraph I linked to; its meaning cannot be captured by CSS rules.
For instance, the effect inherits in a way different from how CSS
works.

Received on Monday, 4 April 2011 22:16:15 UTC