- From: Andrew Fedoniouk <andrew.fedoniouk@live.com>
- Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:25:35 -0700
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Cc: "Alex Mogilevsky" <alexmog@microsoft.com>, "Brad Kemper" <brad.kemper@gmail.com>, "www-style list" <www-style@w3.org>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tab Atkins Jr.
>Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 9:05 PM
>To: L. David Baron
>Cc: Andrew Fedoniouk ; Alex Mogilevsky ; Brad Kemper ; www-style list
>Subject: Re: box-align
>
>On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 8:41 PM, L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org> wrote:
>> On Friday 2011-04-29 12:55 -0700, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
>>> The re-use of 'vertical-align' to do content alignment in table cells
>>> was inarguably a mistake.
>>
>> It was? Having different properties that do similar things in
>> different contexts can be confusing -- authors might have trouble
>> remembering which one is which.
>
>Right, but vertical-align on inlines and vertical-align on table-cells
>are an even worse problem - identical properties that do substantially
>different things.
I would put this as:
It is the same property that has specifics in various layouts.
(half empty or half full?)
Consider this sample:
http://terrainformatica.com/w3/vertical-align.htm
The only difference of second block is that it is defined as
p.it { display:table; }
p.it > span { display: table-cell; }
All other styles (and so alignment) is the same in both cases.
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