- From: Aharon (Vladimir) Lanin <aharon@google.com>
- Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 11:43:18 +0200
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http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-text/#text-align currently defines text-align:match-parent as follows: This value behaves the same as ‘inherit’ except that an inherited ‘start’ > or ‘end’ keyword is calculated against its parent's ‘direction’ value and > results in a computed value of either ‘left’ or ‘right’. > There is also a note on text-align's computed value generally: Computed value: specified value, except for ‘match-parent’ (see prose) > Simon Montagu and I think that the definition above may need to be clarified to the effect that the text-align value inherited *from* an element with text-align:match-parent is its computed text-align value, and thus is never 'match-parent' (or 'start' or 'end'). Here is an example where this is crucial: <div id="div1" style="text-align:start" dir="ltr> <div id="div2" style="text-align:match-parent" dir="rtl> <div id="div3"></div> </div> </div> The intent behind match-parent is that both div2 and div3 be left-aligned. The definition as it currently stands makes that quite clear for div2, but is quite unclear re div3, where it can be misinterpreted to mean that text-align inherits 'match-parent', goes up the tree to find the 'start' and then references off the parent, div2, which is RTL, and thus winds up right-aligned. Aharon
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