- From: Ben Godfrey <afternoon@uk2.net>
- Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 16:58:23 +0100
- To: www-style@w3.org
On Thursday, Jun 5, 2003, at 15:11 Europe/London, Matt wrote: > Then I expect (and should) get a piece if text extending over the full > width of the screen *centre-justified* . > > In CSS the way to centre that DIV is to specify a width and specify > margin: 0 auto;. There is nothing _wrong_ with this syntax, the > programmers understand thatto centre a block the left/right margins > must be made equal, and the "web deyziners" use their software that > does this for them. > > As far as I can see, adding align: would *add* confusion because it is > ambigious as to what is being aligned, and unnecessary because there > is already a suitable method for aligning a block that fits in well > with the > box model etc. How about calling the property block-align instead? Ben (q) Ben Godfrey? (a) Web Developer and Designer See http://aftnn.org/ for details
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