Hi Lachlan, My original question was intended to get a simple anser on the limitations and correct use of justify with text-align, not to open a whole can of worms on "how else I might achive the result". I'll leave that discussion for anyone else who cares to pursue it.
Thanks for all your suggestions and comments but I'm well and truly done with this line of inquiry for now. -- Paul A Noone Webmaster, ASHM [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lachlan Hunt Sent: Thursday, 15 December 2005 4:17 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Justify this Paul Noone wrote: > Lachlan Hunt wrote: >> Paul Noone wrote: >>> I want to centre align text and justify it at the same time. I've >>> applied the following mark-up which, surprisingly, does the trick. >>> >>> text-align:center justify; >> >> p { width: 50%; margin: 0 auto; text-align: justify; } > > Thanks for that but I was actually wanting to center align justified > text for a particular purpose. Evidently my experiment is invalid. If that isn't a solution to your problem, then you need to more clearly explain what you are trying to do. Conceptually, it makes no sense to both center and justify text, since they are mutually exclusive values. I tried your suggested code, but couldn't find any browser that produces the result you described in either quirks or standards mode, all browsers I tried correctly ignore the values and default to left alignment. Please provide a better description, a sample document or some form of illustration (eg. ascii art or a link to an image) that demonstrates the effect you are trying to achieve. If, as you say, the sample code you provided does produce the effect you want, please provide a test case and indicate which broken browser gives the intended result so we may see for ourselves. -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/ ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ****************************************************** ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
