278934 - CSS text-align failing to work

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Saxon Douglass]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

In
http://webmonkey.wired.com/webmonkey/98/15/index2a_page4.html?tw=authoring
the demonstrations of CSS text-elign fail to work. Everything else so far has
worked, but CSS text-align fails to work on this page, and possibly others.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load the page. That's all there is to it.
Actual Results:  
The text and images did not appear where the linked images showed they should.

Expected Results:  
It should have aligned 'A value of left means the element will be left-aligned'
left, 'A value of right means the element will be right-aligned' right, 'A value
of center means the element will be centered' centered, etc.

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

I would very strongly recommend that you find a newer intro to CSS, one that
doesn't believe that Netscape 4 and IE 5 are the current crop of browsers. That
may or may not have been good at the time (I assume the 98 in the URI means
1998), but it's dead now. The markup that once aligned the text is missing
completely, so it's not too surprising it doesn't align, and then they go out of
their way to tell you that text-align only applies to block-level elements, and
proceed to align their image inside an inline element, span.