Issue with "text-align": Raise visibility of 'start' and 'end' values

[r12a]

MDN URL: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/text-align

What information was incorrect, unhelpful, or incomplete?

It would be helpful for internationalisation of the Web to encourage the use of 'start' and 'end' rather than 'left' and 'right', unless the latter are specifically required.

Specific section or headline?

It would be good to add text-align:start and text-align:end to the CSS Demo.
I would recommend moving those values to the top of the list in the Syntax section.
They are already at the head of the list in the Values section, which is great, but they are shown as experimental, whereas all major browsers support them now, and 'start' is even the CSS initial value.
Change the word 'Left' to 'Start' in the examples section.

Did you test this? If so, how?

https://www.w3.org/International/i18n-tests/results/text-align#start

MDN Content page report details

• Folder: en-us/web/css/text-align
• MDN URL: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/text-align
• GitHub URL: https://github.com/mdn/content/blob/main/files/en-us/web/css/text-align/index.html
• Last commit: 8f68c9b
• Document last modified: 2021-06-23T15:16:28.000Z

[r12a]

Many thanks for fixing this.

Would you like some Arabic or Hebrew text to use as a second paragraph in the Start alignment example? I can provide, for example, article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Just let me know if you want to. Happy for this to be ignored, otherwise.

[teoli2003]

I like the idea, but I'll let @rachelandrew decide.

[rachelandrew]

@r12a that would be excellent, I'd be very happy to add that in.

[r12a]

Ok, here's the code with an additional paragraph, plus dir and lang attributes. I split the text into 4 lines, similarly to the Latin text, though it's not one sentence per line. Hopefully, that should do the trick.

<p class="example" lang="la">
  Integer elementum massa at nulla placerat varius.
  Suspendisse in libero risus, in interdum massa.
  Vestibulum ac leo vitae metus faucibus gravida ac in neque.
  Nullam est eros, suscipit sed dictum quis, accumsan a ligula.
</p>
<p class="example" dir="rtl" lang="he">
  כל בני אדם נולדו בני חורין ושווים
  בערכם ובזכויותיהם. כולם חוננו בתבונה
  ובמצפון, לפיכך חובה עליהם לנהוג
  איש ברעהו ברוח של אחוה.
</p>

It should look something like this when displayed in the box (i hope it's long enough – if not, let me know).

The source is https://unicode.org/udhr/d/udhr_heb.html

hth

[r12a]

@rachelandrew just checking whether you saw this. ^^^