- 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.
Received on Friday, 12 July 2002 03:40:26 UTC