- From: L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 08:39:25 -0700
- To: Alex Mogilevsky <alexmog@microsoft.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Thursday 2011-04-28 13:41 +0000, Alex Mogilevsky wrote: > Extending 'box-align' to cover the behavior of <center> tag is an > interesting proposal. Currently <center> cannot be defined using > CSS. Decisions that led to it were done before my time, but I am > sure it is on purpose. Perhaps older CSSWG members could share why > <center> is not possible in CSS, and if extending 'box-align' in > that direction is a good idea? We had a proposal for that written up a few years ago: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2007Nov/0071.html such that <center> could be expressed as 'text-align: center; alignment: center' (or whatever we called the new property). I think this would still be a good idea (though I'm not sure about the name). I'm not sure why auto margins were originally chosen over an alignment property; that's well before I was involved in the group. -David -- L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ Mozilla Corporation http://www.mozilla.com/
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