- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2014 11:00:05 -0800
- To: "Aharon (Vladimir) Lanin" <aharon@google.com>
- Cc: "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>, Jean-Baptiste Cordina <jbcordina@gmail.com>, W3C style mailing list <www-style@w3.org>
On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 10:46 AM, Aharon (Vladimir) Lanin
<aharon@google.com> wrote:
> 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.
To be more specific, just rewrite the original example:
>> > 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
>> > }
into:
my-component {
text-align: start;
}
my-component .read-more {
text-align: end;
}
~TJ
Received on Monday, 3 November 2014 19:00:52 UTC