Mark Lundquist wrote: > On Jan 13, 2007, at 12:50 PM, david wrote: > > My understanding is, no, text-align is only supposed to align text. > > That's incorrect; see http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/text.html#alignment-prop: > > "This property describes how inline content of a block is aligned [etc...] > > All of this section is worded in terms of "inline content" or "inline > boxes", not text /per se/.
Then the W3C's choice of "TEXT-align" is a bad choice. It specifies "text" when it's really talking about something broader than what people think of as text. Something like horizontal-align would make more sense to me, or align-x to parallel the repeat-x, repeat-y values for background images. > The fact that IE6 also aligns images when you use it is wrong. > > Who said anything about IE? :-) Nobody did, but the original poster didn't specify any browser at all. I've quite often seen people do that when they use IE because they think everyone uses IE. > All browsers do it, and it's not wrong! > > Now, what IE does do wrong is that it also centers block content within > a container that has 'text-align: center'. This may be what you are > thinking of. Yah, that's what I was thinking of. -- David [EMAIL PROTECTED] authenticity, honesty, community ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
