- From: Peter Flynn <pflynn@imbolc.ucc.ie>
- Date: 13 Aug 1997 00:34:52 +0100
- To: jptxs@idt.net
- Cc: wlkngowl@unix.asb.com, www-html@w3.org
Hakon Lie wrote:
>CSS has this:
>
> BODY { text-align: justify }
thanks, i had missed that all together
looking too hard i guess......
can this be applied as:
BLOCKQUOTE { text-align: justify }
or
P { text-align: justify }
Yes, exactly that. Far better than align=justify (I had assumed you
couldn't or didn't want to use a stylesheet).
>What you're looking for is <p align="justify">, right? And <div
>align="justify">? Do browsers support these?
that is exactly what I would love to see
i can't be sure if it's proper or not, though
i realize CSS is supposed to take care of all
the style elements of a document so it should
cover alignments, but, on the other hand,
justification is simply the proper way to align
a blockquote--so it's not really a style issue
in that case (the one i'm most concerned with)
Justification has nothing to do with block quotations: it's simply a
conventional way of lining up margins in paragraphs of continuous
text. In fact, I have often seen block quotations set _un_justified
in the middle of otherwise justified text. There's nothing "proper"
about either way: it's a style decision. I'm simply not clear why you
feel it's so important to justify block-quoted material over and above
regular paragraphs (unless I've misunderstood something).
///Peter
Received on Tuesday, 12 August 1997 19:33:54 UTC