- From: David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:15:48 +0000
- To: www-style CSS <www-style@w3.org>
Alex Mogilevsky wrote: > text-align shouldn't be affecting blocks. It should only be affecting inline > content. If we want a property for aligning blocks, it should be a separate > property. Aligning the block one way and the inline content another is very > common. The fundamental reason for this proposal was to have a property that behaves like the CENTER element, and therefore does affect both contexts. I haven't followed it closely enough, but I'm not sure that the interaction between it, text-align and auto margins has actually been specified adequately. In saying that the two functions must be separate, you are effectively rejecting the whole proposal. I don't think that is necessarily bad, as the proposal was basically furthering the continuance of an element that was deprecated in favour of using CSS. What people wanted to do was to continue to use CENTER elements, but not to have to rely on ad hoc browser implementation, but, instead, be able to specify it in the browser style sheet. If a combined property is introduced, I think it should be introduced pre-deprecated, because it only exists to support a deprecated HTML feature. -- David Woolley Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. RFC1855 says there should be an address here, but, in a world of spam, that is no longer good advice, as archive address hiding may not work.
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