Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 12/14/06 21:26

Scripsit Jonathan N. Little:

>> PS: is it possible to align at the decimal point?
>>
>
> Not on INPUT elements, on table cells but I believe browser support it
> spotty

By the CSS 2.0 specification, you can use text-align: ".", and you could
even use the display property to turn input elements into cells in CSS sense
(i.e., as elements to be rendered as table cells). But string values for
text-align haven't been implemented at all, and the drafts for CSS 2.1 (work
in progress) have this feature removed.

For table cells, there are somewhat contrived techniques to create the
impression of aligning at the decimal point, and they work part of the time.
I guess it would be possible to do something similar with input elements,
using JavaScript to insert special space characters as needed, but it would
not work reliably at all in any open environment.

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Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
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