"Jukka K. Korpela" <jk******@cs.tut.fi> wrote in message
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"Chamomile" <ne********@chamomile.co.uk> wrote:
does anyone know if its possible to full-justfy text in a <textarea>?
It might be possible to achieve such perversions.
By definition, <textarea> is an element for multi-line user input. What
could possibly justify the idea of justifying the input, and what would
this really mean (in the process of typing input)?
I can do left and right justify and center with a
simple style declaration, but can't find any reference anywhere to a
full justify
On the technical side, it's pretty simple: text-align: justify would do
if it were supported by browsers, but its implementation is confused,
buggy, and odd.
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Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
well, it's not exactly a perversion!
I'm trying to make things more comfortable for my users...
I take your point about typing in - justifying 'live' input might be a
process too far
although the <textarea> doesn't mind handling left , right or center
justification on the fly.
The problem has arisen trying to layout a page for web editing in an admin
<form>
as near to the actual (table) rendered public layout as possible.
The layout is stored in a backend database along with the data (text ,
pictures)
that can be updated from the <form> in question.
The 'public' layout allows formatting the text in left, right, center and
justified mode
so I would like to present the editable text to the admin user as closely as
possible to
the final look of the public page.
The 'text-align:justify' thing doesn't work unfortunately.
Any other ideas?
