To my knowledge, the CSS rules below works fine since XXE Milestone 1!
Except for proprietary extension "marker-offset: fill;" which has been
added very recently.
Property "width" is ignored, unless used for elements having
"display:table-cell;".
Scott Daley wrote:
> Thanks for the response. Any way of doing this is in XXE 2.1? I also
> tried using 'width' in generated content to no avail.
>
> Hussein Shafie wrote:
>>Scott Daley wrote:
>>
>>>I am having trouble specifying the white space between generated content
>>>and actual content. I have tried different margins and padding values
>>>for the generated content and the actual content, but the values
>>>supplied for the generated content appear to be ignored.
>>>
>>>In the example below, I would like to vertically align 'yyyyyy' and
>>>'zzzzzz'. Do I need to use a table?
>>>
>>>IF yyyyyyyy
>>>THEN zzzzzz
>>>
>>>
>>>ifClause:before {
>>>.............
>>>}
>>>thenClause:before {
>>>.............
>>>}
>>>
>>>ifClause, thenClause, elseClause, santaClause {
>>>.........
>>>}
>>>
>>>
>>
>>What follows is standard CSS2:
>>
>>ifClause, thenClause, elseClause, santaClause {
>> display: block;
>> margin-left: 10ex;
>>}
>>
>>ifClause:before {
>> display: marker;
>> content: "IF";
>>}
>>
>>thenClause:before {
>> display: marker;
>> content: "THEN";
>>}
>>
>>etc...
>>
>>Now if you want to left-align, not only yyyyyyy and zzzzz, but also IF
>>and THEN (because it is nicer), you may want to use proprietary
>>extension "marker-offset:fill;", e.g.:
>>
>>ifClause:before {
>> display: marker;
>> content: "IF";
>> marker-offset: fill;
>>}
>>
>>thenClause:before {
>> display: marker;
>> content: "THEN";
>> marker-offset: fill;
>>}
>>
>>See
>>http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/csssupport/marker-offset_fill.html
