Re: [CSSWG] Resolutions 2007-08-28

Bert Bos wrote:
> O
> Something related that we want in CSS, but haven't quite finished 
> designing yet, is a way to make a given text exactly fill a given 
> width. We have a proposed
> 
>     last-line-align: size
> 
> whose naming isn't as intuitive as we'd like but which means that the UA 
> adjusts the font size so that the text of the block fits exactly on one 
> line. Maybe 'text-align: justify; text-justify: size' is more 
> intuitive. It's useful for certain headings, e.g. (A related 
> addition, 'min-font-size' and 'max-font-size', allows to limit the 
> damage.)

IIRC, Paul and I removed that from CSS3 Text awhile ago. It's was
not a very well-designed feature: for example, it would look very
silly whenever the text was split into more than one line.

~fantasai

Received on Wednesday, 29 August 2007 15:24:08 UTC