Re: [css-text] text-align-last and cascading

On 08/20/2013 06:33 PM, François REMY wrote:
> ± > Full proposal would be:
> ± >
> ± >    text-align: <alignment-values>{1,2} | justify-all;
> ± >    -> text-align-all: <alignment-values>;
> ± >    -> text-align-last: auto | <alignment-values>;
>
> Just for the record, I faced a case where I wanted the alignment
> of the last line to be "really normal" (ie: not an exception).
> My idea initially was to provide a "no-exception" or "as-usual"
> value for "text-align-last", so that if "text-align" is set to
> "justify", the last line is also justified.
>
> Not to say I'm against "justify-all" but having
> "text-align-last: as-usual"> would allow me to solve my problem
> with CSS only where the current options force me to use JavaScript
> to detect the current alignment and set "text-align-last" to
> "justify" if "text-align" computed to "justify" which is rather
> odd (but for now I've to rely on it anyway since blink/webkit do
> not support text-align-last anyway).

Hm, maybe like a 'match-all' value, or 'auto-justify' or something?

I'm not sure that would work out very well if 'text-align-last'
is reset by 'text-align', though.

~fantasai

Received on Wednesday, 28 August 2013 06:27:19 UTC