- From: Alan Gresley <alan@css-class.com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 06:11:44 +1000
- To: "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- CC: Alex Mogilevsky <alexmog@microsoft.com>, www-style@w3.org
On 29/04/2011 1:39 AM, L. David Baron wrote: > 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 Think about the behavior of the BFC and horizontal directions of overflow in vertical block progressions which both LTR and RTL share. -- Alan Gresley http://css-3d.org/ http://css-class.com/
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