- From: L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:59:41 -0800
- To: David Woolley <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>
- Cc: www-style CSS <www-style@w3.org>
On Tuesday 2008-01-22 22:15 +0000, David Woolley wrote:
> 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
No, I don't think that's the case.
The behavior of the CENTER element could be mapped to two CSS
properties, e.g.:
center { text-align: center; block-align: center; }
and the new property that we're introducing could align blocks
without changing text.
-David
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