- From: Coises <Randy@coises.com>
- Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2002 00:42:02 -0700
- To: www-style@w3.org
[Mon, 3 Jun 2002 21:51:00 +0200] Bert Bos: >6) Both solutions, a new property and a new value for 'text-indent', >would also have a problem with backwards compatibility, because CSS2 >implementations would not show any effect at all, neither an indent >nor an outdent. > >In short, the working group would like to see more convincing >examples, before trying to add anything to CSS3. A much simpler solution --- in my humble opinion --- would be to define negative text-indent values as setting the first line of a block flush with the content edge and indenting the following lines by the appropriate amount. The margin/border/padding values then continue to mean (in an intuitive sense) what they mean in any other context. This does have the serious disadvantage of being incompatible with CSS2; I submit that in all other respects, it makes far more sense than saying that negative values cause the text to move out of the content area. Consider, for example: what happens with the CSS2 method of creating hanging indents should the overflow property be other than visible? -- Randall Joseph Fellmy aka Randy@Coises.com
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