CSS3-Text: text-indent, once more

http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-css3-text-20030226/#indentation-prop

  # The box is indented with respect to the starting edge of the line box.
  # User agents should render this indentation as blank space. When the
  # 'text-align' property is not set to align the text at the starting
  # edge, this property only specifies a minimum indentation. When the
  # 'text-align' property is set to 'center', the content of the first
  # line is centered within the line box inline progression minus the
  # indentation.

This is vague. text-indent is a familiar property, so it wouldn't make
much of a difference--except you already have a better-written alternate
available to you. I suggest you use the wording Ian and I came up with.
The entire paragraph above can be replaced with:

   The indent is treated as a margin applied to the start edge of the
   line box.

It handles all cases, including "text-align: center" and interaction
with floats.

~fantasai

Received on Saturday, 3 May 2003 03:23:03 UTC