- From: Jesse McCarthy <mccarthy36@earthlink.net>
- Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 19:29:13 -0400
- To: "'www-style@w3.org'" <www-style@w3.org>
Nolan Clark <nolanc@ischool.washington.edu> wrote on 10/24/01 7:19:08 PM: > >Granted, CSS2 lacks a simple method to vertically center content, but the >horizontal centering works very well. It does not make sense to add >centering support to CSS, because that functionality is already built into >the horizontal part of the box model. The most logical thing to do would be >to extend the box model so vertical formatting worked exactly like >horizontal formatting. > >Then you could easily center content both horizontally and vertically like >this: > ><div style="with:100px; height:100px"> > <div style="margin:auto"> content </div> ></div> > >This would be a very minor extension to CSS2, but it could be very difficult >to actually implement in a browser (something I have no experience with). I'm loathe to say the horizontal formatting works very well. I need to use it more before I'll make a decision about it's effectiveness. Nonetheless, the situation I am talking about is centering, horizontally and vertically, a block- level non-replaced element without explicit width or height defined, in which case margin will not help.
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