Is it possible to transition text-alignment using CSS3 only?

Question

Is it possible to transition text-alignment using css3? For example, I\'d like to animate text-alignment from left to right, however, adding a transition property on text-al

Answer 1

I found out a way of not only animating from left to right / right to left, but also from centered text.

The trick is to apply a width of '0'.

ul { 
  background: #fff;
  padding: 16px;
  border: 1px solid #e2e2e2;
}
 
li {
  list-style: none;
  letter-spacing: 1px;
  font: 12px 'Tahoma';
  line-height: 24px;
  color: #444;
  text-align: center;
  white-space: nowrap;
  width: 100%;
  transition: width .8s ease;
}

ul:hover > li {
  width: 0;
}

  
  



  
this
  
is a list
  
of entries
  
with various widths.
  
hover over it
  
to apply crazy css magic!

https://jsfiddle.net/q5kLcfkx/4/