- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:42:20 -0700
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- CC: Alex Mogilevsky <alexmog@microsoft.com>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On 04/13/2011 01:29 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > > I've been discussing this with fantasai, and she hit upon the idea of > exposing a box-align property which simply acts analogously to > vertical-align on table cells, like people have been asking for > forever. It turns the element into a BFC and, if there's any free > space in the length axis, aligns the contents appropriately. It would > be applicable to all elements, and in the case of flexbox specifically > would accomplish the same thing that I was going to make padding:auto > do. > > What do you think? Wrt applying it to other elements, here are the minutes from that WG discussion: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Apr/0039.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-css-wg/2008AprJun/0015.html ~fantasai
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