On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 18:40:42 +0100, Wouter Wessels <wwessels@xs4all.nl> wrote: > When you align a piece of text 'left' in an Englis page, chances are you > want it aligned 'right' in an Arabic page. > > How wonderful would the world be if there were 2 extra values that one > could use in the align argument in for instance <td align="something"> Effectively this is what happens with CSS2.1 now, where it says that the inital value of text-align is: Initial: a nameless value that acts as 'left' if 'direction' is 'ltr', 'right' if 'direction' is 'rtl' http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/text.html#alignment-prop CSS3 adds actual values for these two cases, namely 'start' and 'end'. http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/CR-css3-text-20030514/#alignment-prop Best wishes, Steven PembertonReceived on Thursday, 8 March 2007 21:30:44 UTC
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