Posted by Ben C on 04/25/07 12:41

On 2007-04-25, Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> wrote:
> Scripsit JWS:
>
>> I make "sidenotes" in a simple html page with the following css:
>
> Looks OK (using floating), but as usual, a URL would have helped to see the
> technique in action.
>
>> But I want right-justified text (especially for printing),
>
> Justification is seldom justified for web pages. :-) There are many bugs in
> browsers in its implementation, the quality of justification is poor, and
> long words easily mess it up. For a barrow sidenote, even modestly long
> words cause too big gaps between words.

The OP did say "right-justified", which I take to mean "right-aligned",
i.e. not justified.

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