- From: Tantek Çelik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu>
- Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2002 15:46:44 -0800
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, Hċkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Cc: "'www-style@w3.org'" <www-style@w3.org>
On 4/6/02 9:05 AM, "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:
> Hċkon Wium Lie wrote:
>>
>> People who are interested in comparing language and syntax from
>> various style sheet mechanisms may be interested in:
>>
>> http://people.opera.com/howcome/2002/style/chart.html
>
> : Challenge: Place the left content edge of a BLOCKQUOTE element 1em to the
> : left of the middle of the canvas.
>
> That can be done in CSS:
>
> BLOCKQUOTE {
> position: absolute;
> left: 50%;
> margin-left: 1em;
> }
I think you meant:
BLOCKQUOTE {
position: absolute;
left: 50%;
margin-left: -1em;
} /* ^ */
But that doesn't work either, because it takes the BLOCKQUOTE out of the
flow, which AFAIK is not the intent of the challenge.
Tantek
Received on Saturday, 6 April 2002 18:43:57 UTC