Re: <BR align=xxx>

Peter Flynn (pflynn@curia.ucc.ie)
Wed, 1 Mar 95 02:11:18 EST

[<br align="...">]
Bill writes:
Wasn't saying it was difficult - took about 3 minutes for emacs-w3. Just
seemed a little out of place compared to all the other alignment stuff that
is container-based, and effects the text in the container.

I agree. It runs counter to all the other uses of ALIGN, which occur
in start-tags and thus _precede_ the text affected. What does the
following currently get interpreted as?

<p>Forasmuch as we have shewn in the foregoing the nature of our
error, we earnestly beseech the reader not to tred too hastily
in our path, lest it befall that:-<br align="center">
he find not the will to pursue his endeavours;<br align="center">
he lack the independence of thought necessary to so great an
undertaking;<br align="center">
he come not to that understanding of the nature of the Goddess
which is a prerequisite for success.</p>

It would seem logical, Captain, that an ALIGN in a <br> should affect
the text following it, up to the end of the current element, or the
next <br> if there be one (this syntax is catching :-) I would expect
the paragraph to be displayed as:

Forasmuch as we have shewn in the foregoing the nature of our
error, we earnestly beseech the reader not to tred too hastily
in our path, lest it befall that:-
he find not the will to pursue his endeavours;
he lack the independence of thought necessary to so great an
undertaking;
he come not to that understanding of the nature of the Goddess
which is a prerequisite for success.

In other words, it should mean "break the line, and from hereon, set
stuff centered until told otherwise, or the paragraph ends".

///Peter