- From: L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:05:33 -0500
- To: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Wednesday 2008-12-31 16:57 -0800, Brad Kemper wrote: > Wow. OK. I didn't realize it would be that hard to get a reasonable > fallback value. In the case of decimal numbers, I would want the columns This was the discussion about fallback if text-align: <string> was used on something not a table cell; not the case about fallback if the cell doesn't have appropriate text. > to be aligned on the decimal. That has got to be the most common use > case, no? Especially if you don't know how many decimal places will be in > each number. But if the same column happened to contain integers instead > of decimals, then I would want them to line up on the right. Always > (assuming they are values to be compared with one another). I think for the case where the cell doesn't have the appropriate text, assuming that the alignment text is right after the text of the cell probably makes sense, given that the primary use case is decimals. (This would imply that when none of the cells have the text, it's equivalent to text-align: end.) -David -- L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ Mozilla Corporation http://www.mozilla.com/
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