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 -- 𝄞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄢 Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂 Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense. - Robert Frost, Mending Wall (1914)Received on Wednesday, 23 October 2013 13:03:34 UTC
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