- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 14:21:04 -0500
- To: www-style@w3.org
Garrett Smith wrote: > On Dec 26, 2007 12:44 AM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com> wrote: >> On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 07:25:27 +0100, fantasai >> <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net> wrote: >>> Markus Mielke wrote: >>>> *Problem:* >>>> Allow centering of content within a containing block. Today, we only >>>> have text-align: center available that only applies to text and inline >>>> elements. This makes general centering of elements (like images) really >>>> difficult. > Text-align also applies to table-cell's content, though this does not > work cross-browser: > http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/tables.html#column-alignment > > The nature of the spec seems (in my mind anyway) to have been to > replace align attribute on TD with text-align. It's a problem because > what do you do with margin: auto blocks when the TD has text-align: > center? > > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2007Dec/0018.html Yeah, that sentence isn't correct. It should say "inline content" instead of "content". That fix should make its way to the errata as soon as Bert gets a chance to edit. ~fantasai
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