W3C CSS2 Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 - instructional media + ...

The following example causes a ’3em’ text indent.
P { text-indent: 3em }
16.2 Alignment: the ’text-align’ property
’text-align’
Value: left | right | center | justify | | inherit
Initial: depends on user agent and writing direction
Applies to: block-level elements
Inherited: yes
Percentages: N/A
Media: visual
This property describes how inline content of a block is aligned. Values have
the following meanings:
left, right, center, and justify
Left, right, center, and double justify text, respectively.
Specifies a string on which cells in a table column will align (see the section
on horizontal alignment in a column [p. 260] for details and an example).
This value applies only to table [p. 245] cells. If set on other elements, it will
be treated as ’left’ or ’right’, depending on whether ’direction’ is ’ltr’, or ’rtl’,
respectively.
A block of text is a stack of line boxes [p. 105] . In the case of ’left’, ’right’ and
’center’, this property specifies how the inline boxes within each line box align
with respect to the line box’s left and right sides; alignment is not with respect to
the viewport [p. 96] . In the case of ’justify’, the UA may stretch the inline boxes in
addition to adjusting their positions. (See also ’letter-spacing’ and
’word-spacing’.)
Example(s):
In this example, note that since ’text-align’ is inherited, all block-level elements
inside the DIV element with ’class=center’ will have their inline content centered.
DIV.center { text-align: center }
Note. The actual justification algorithm used is user-agent and written
language dependent.
Conforming user agents [p. 32] may interpret the value ’justify’ as ’left’ or ’right’,
depending on whether the element’s default writing direction is left-to-right or
right-to-left, respectively.
16.3 Decoration
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