- From: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 10:42:34 -0700
- To: Alex Mogilevsky <alexmog@microsoft.com>
- Cc: "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On May 12, 2011, at 10:26 AM, Alex Mogilevsky wrote: > I am not sure we've closed on this, have we? > > The matter of expressing <center> in CSS I find quite interesting -- all browsers do implement it, so if defined properly there should be no new layout work just parse and apply... > > FWIF, I believe we implement <center>, <left> and <right> by having an extra set of margins in widths & martins formulas, the extra margins can only be set to zero or auto and are considered last. > > This thread however was not sponsored by the element <center>. I don't believe it is missed all that much. What people *really* want is vertical centering of direct children of a box with specified height (such as label in a button or video in viewport). That will work fine without inheritance. > > Now, if somebody wants "true center" this is the thread to speak up))) I do, I do! I would like to set one property on one container, and have all the block-level children (descendants?) align within it either vertically, horizontally, or both. It would be very useful. Using auto margins on each child is a PIA, and vertical centering is hard.
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