I meant to say - is it too late to add it? Aharon On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 11:54 PM, Aharon (Vladimir) Lanin <aharon@google.com > wrote: > 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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