738578 - too long text inside div ignores alignment rule

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Attachment: testcase

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120322 Firefox/14.0a1 ID:20120322031220

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there are 3 alignments for some text inside a div
if the text is shorter than the div it works as expected
if the text is longer than the div it aligns left, no matter what (horizontal) alignment applied to the div.

Comment 1

[IU]

I'm seeing the same behavior with other browsers.  Is this supposed to be supported?

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#inline-formatting says:

  When the total width of the inline-level boxes on a line is less than the width of the
  line box containing them, their horizontal distribution within the line box is
  determined by the 'text-align' property.

So text-align only applies when the text on the line is shorter than the width of the line, per spec.