text-align:match-parent (see past discussion below) does not seem to have made it into http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-text/#text-align. Aharon On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:16 AM, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>wrote: > Adding www-style. The discussion started with the alignment > of <select> and <option>, see thread here: > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-i18n-bidi/2010AprJun/0030.html > > On 05/23/2010 08:40 AM, Aharon (Vladimir) Lanin wrote: [...] I should mention that [...] we need a > > text-align:inherit value that finally actually works. It would be >> defined as applying the parent element's "bottom-line" alignment: left, >> right, center, or justify (as opposed to start, end, or the "unnamed >> default" value). Thus, for >> >> <body style="text-align:inherit> >> <div dir="rtl"> >> hello >> </div> >> </body> >> >> hello would be left-aligned. >> >> This turns out to be quite useful in many places when one needs to set >> the dir on a block element, but does not want the element's alignment to >> be affected, and does not want to use an explicit "left" or "right", >> since that would depend on the the overall page direction. >> > > Your suggestion for a 'match-parent' keyword that computes to the parent's > effective alignment seems like a good idea, though. > > ~fantasai >
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