John Horner wrote:
You have a point, but that's CSS version *two*, isn't it?
What I want is the ability to align the content of a DIV, for instance, or any block element, vertically, and I'm asking why it wasn't included in CSS-1.
I can't think of any policy-type reason why it wasn't, that's all, and I don't see vertical alignment as being directly related to table-cell display either.
CSS-1 didn't have hardly any layout ability, just text/list styling and some padding/margins for blocks. It just had floats for layout, and no absolute positioning < http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS1 >.
What I mean to say is that vertical positioning was probably a minor concern until they got the basic layout concepts done in CSS2.
But yeah, it seems crazy that they didn't reimplement basic layout features already available in HTML.
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