Posted by BeeRich on 07/03/07 08:08

On Jul 3, 3:33 am, Ben C <spams...@spam.eggs> wrote:
> On 2007-07-03, Neredbojias <neredboj...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > 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.
>
> They can be.
>
> > Furthermore, the lines
> > would probably still go from top to bottom, but I'd experiment to see what
> > I could come up with.
>
> The lines still go from top to bottom. They always go from top to bottom
> in CSS. I don't know of any language in which lines might be written
> bottom to top, although perhaps there are some. You can write characters
> top to bottom and lines right-to-left in Chinese or Japanese (in books,
> not CSS) but I've never heard of anything going bottom-to-top.
>
> OP could always turn his monitor upside down I suppose.

You missed what I'm saying. Alignment of the block of text on the
bottom, so the top overflow is hidden.

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