- From: Rijk van Geijtenbeek <rijk@iname.com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 09:41:38 +0200
- To: www-style@w3.org
Hello jonathan, On Friday, July 12, 2002 you wrote: > *Rijk wrote: The other thing I miss is being able to restrict the > width of an element to a certain number of characters > sorry, my shorthand, often stretches a point.. > would this meet your conception*? > maybe > #a {width: 15%} > <span id="a"> jack</span> No. What has the width of the parent element to do with the number of characters? I'd like to be able to translate <pre width="80"> to pre { max-width: 80char;} This is for example useful when you want to style received plain text e-mails or newsgroup messages on a webpage. Greetings, Rijk mailto:rijk@iname.com Mot du Jour: Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. PS: I do follow this list, so there's no need to send duplicate mails. They end up in the same mail folder anyway.
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