Re: <option> and text-align

Got it. So, I guess my last paragraph has to be modified to the following:

Now, if you say that text-align can and should control the alignment of an
option, what should the default text-align value be for option? Currently,
the default value is "start" for the root element, and inherited by all
others. However, Gecko's UA default stylesheet specifies "start" again for
<select>. Perhaps, though, that should be dropped, and the HTML5 default
stylesheet should specify text-align:match-parent for <option>? If it were
match-parent, the default behavior would be for all options to line up to
the select direction's start edge even when different options have different
direction - but it could be controlled by setting it to a different value.

But the bigger question is whether the CSS spec can and should state that
text-align affects <option> - since currently Firefox is alone in that
regard.


On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote:

> On 1/19/11 11:11 AM, Aharon (Vladimir) Lanin wrote:
>
>> Well, it does seem to inherit from the <select>, but not from a parent
>> of the select.
>>
>
> Quoting from Gecko's UA stylesheet:
>
>   select {
>     text-align: start;
>   }
>
> There are also similar rules there for input and textarea (buttons and
> reset/button/submit inputs are set to text-align:center, though).
>
> You can see the whole forms-related bit of the stylesheet at
> http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/layout/style/forms.css if
> needed.
>
>
>     That said, none of your testcases set text-align, and Gecko
>>    currently inherits the "start" value as "start", so in fact
>>    everything on a page has a computed text-align of "start" by
>>    default.  Unless someone sets some text-align styles somewhere.
>>
>>
>> I do not know what you mean. Here is the content of my attachment. Note
>> the text-align on body and on several of the option elements.
>>
>
> Er, I meant "set text-align on the select", and I meant to quote the above
> UA rule but clearly forgot to.  :(
>
> -Boris
>