Re: Proposal : Adding an "opposite" value to "text-align" property

The use case for text-align: opposite seems to be dealing with RTL
languages. Given the availability of text-align: start and text-align: end,
I don't understand the need for opposite.

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 5:10 PM, L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org> wrote:

> On Tuesday 2014-10-21 17:39 +0200, Jean-Baptiste Cordina wrote:
> > Just added some details because I think i forget to define the way it has
> > to work.
> >
> >
> > my-component {
> > text-align : left;
> > }
> >
> > [dir=rtl] my-component {
> > text-align: right;
> > }
> >
> > my-component .read-more {
> > text-align : opposite; // if parent has text-align: left then opposite =
> > right else if parent has text-align: right the opposite = left
> > }
>
> Except for this statement:
>
> > opposite has no effect in cas of a parent with a text-align: center or
> > justify value.
>
> what you want could be done using
> http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-values/#toggle-notation (although that's
> not implemented yet, I don't think).
>
> The question is if it's an important enough use case to deserve a
> separate value.
>
> -David
>
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