Posted by Neredbojias on 07/03/07 06:24

On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 05:29:23 GMT BeeRich scribed:

> Hi folks.
>
> Question for the gurus.
>
> I have a box 200 wide, 200 tall. I insert text in there and it's
> larger than the box. So I set overflow to hidden. The result is
> text
> that starts at the beginning, and the end of the paragraph is sliced
> off at the end.
>
> How do I shove this vertically, so that the beginning is cut off, and
> the last parts of that text are shown, aligned to the bottom? The
> length of this text will change, so I need a way of aligning it so
> that the top part becomes hidden, not the bottom.
>
> Any ideas?

There are ways to reverse text direction (rtl or ltr) but I don't know for
sure if they can be applied to a single element. Furthermore, the lines
would probably still go from top to bottom, but I'd experiment to see what
I could come up with.

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Neredbojias

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