- From: L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 15:03:08 +0200
- To: www-style@w3.org
- Message-ID: <20131023130308.GA8235@crum.dbaron.org>
http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-align/#overflow-values describes the
concepts of 'safe' and 'true' alignment.
The 'text-align' property defaults to 'safe' alignment. I think it
would be useful to add an option for 'true' alignment.
Syntactically, I think this could be done by adding an optional
'true' keyword that could come before or after the current value
space of the 'text-align' property. I think this would be a useful
addition to css-text-4.
The use case I heard was that it would be particularly useful when
combined with 'text-overflow: ellipsis', when showing data where the
end is more important than the start. For example, a constrained
space showing a phone number, where the end of the number might be
considered more important to show than the start, could be aligned
as 'text-align: true right; text-overflow: ellipsis' so that any
overflowing phone numbers would have the start of the number
overflowing (e.g., "0016177616200" being shown as "...7616200").
-David
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