Bug 65822 - Letter-spacing does not play well with text-align:right
Summary: Letter-spacing does not play well with text-align:right
Status: RESOLVED CONFIGURATION CHANGED
Alias: None
Product: WebKit
Classification: Unclassified
Component: CSS (show other bugs)
Version: 528+ (Nightly build)
Hardware: Unspecified Unspecified
: P2 Normal
Assignee: Nobody
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Reported: 2011-08-06 15:54 PDT by lacerchia
Modified: 2022-07-12 15:06 PDT (History)
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2011-08-06 15:54 PDT, lacerchia 		no flags Details
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Description lacerchia 2011-08-06 15:54:42 PDT 
Created attachment 103168 [details]
demonstration

If you use letter-spacing with left alignment, the first letter aligns with other left-aligned paragraphs that don't have letter-spacing set. But with right alignment, the last letter does not align with other right-aligned paragraphs: it is shifted left by the letter-spacing amount. In other words, letter-spacing currently adds the specified amount of space to the right of the glyph. I think that violates CSS2, which says that "This property specifies spacing behavior between text characters" <http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/text.html#spacing-props>; not between a character and the right side of the text box.
Comment 1 Brent Fulgham 2022-07-12 15:06:41 PDT 
Safari, Chrome, and Firefox all agree on rendering for this test case. I don't believe there is any remaining compatibility issue.