| Summary: | [test case] html4.css rules for RTL direction don't apply to CSS-specified direction | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] konqueror | Reporter: | Ilya Konstantinov <kde-bug-report> |
| Component: | khtml renderer | Assignee: | Konqueror Developers <konq-bugs> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Debian testing | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Attachments: | test case | ||
For reference, you can see bug http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74880 which discusses solution for the same problem in Mozilla. Note that they did consider the way we implemented it (via *[dir=RTL]) and rejected it. Created attachment 8241 [details]
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well, this will reduce the space a UL would take - just in case. I guess we need something more sophisticated than html4.css for that I solved this a few months ago in KDE 3.5 branch. |
Version: (using KDE KDE 3.1.1) Installed from: Debian testing/unstable Packages html4.css specifies rules for handling elements differently when inside elements having RTL direction but, unfortunately, those rules only apply when the direction is set with the DIR attribute (and not apply with 'direction' CSS property). *[dir="rtl"] UL, *[dir="rtl"] OL, *[dir="rtl"] DIR, *[dir="rtl"] MENU, *[dir="rtl"] DD { margin-right:40px; margin-left: auto; } would cause this: <DIV DIR="RTL"> <OL> <LI> This would be indented to the left. </OL> </DIV> <DIV STYLE="direction:rtl"> <OL> <LI> This wouldn't be indented to the left. </OL> </DIV> After a chat with Ian Hixie (CSS guru from the Mozilla project), I've realized there are few options: 1. Add a :-konq-rtl pseudo-class. *INVALID* since you can't have a CSS selector sequence dependant on a CSS property (a chicken-and-egg thing; what selector gets parsed and applied first?). 2. Add custom property "-konq-margin-start" (since, unfortunatelly, "margin-start" wasn't accepted into CSS3) which defines the margin relative to the text start (direction-dependant). Along, we should also add "-konq-margin-end", "-konq-padding-start" and "-konq-padding-end", for completeness sake. 3. Define UL,OL,DIR,MENU,DD just as we define BLOCKQUOTE -- with margins on both sides in either case, i.e.: UL,OL,DIR,MENU,DD { margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; } I think that, for now, we should stick to option #3.