Re: FW: NoWrap property

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 10:05 AM, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>wrote:

> Robert O'Callahan wrote:
>
>  The first principle explains our rendering of your testcases. In your
>> third testcase, the space after the nowrap span is collapsed away but we
>> still allow it to create a linebreak opportunity, since it's
>> white-space:normal.
>>
>
> This is something that's not clear in the spec: does removed whitespace
> still
> create a break opportunity? It would be good to discuss this in the context
> of what we want for CSS3. E.g. suppose there is a 'discard' value for white
> space.


In CSS3 white-space-collapse and text-wrap are orthogonal, so while it might
not be 100% obvious, it could actually be useful for
white-space-collapse:discard to work with text-wrap:normal to hide all
white-space but continue using it for breaking purposes. It might make more
sense to name the white-space-collapse value 'hide' instead of 'discard'.

I do think it's desirable to allow collapsed-away whitespace to create break
opportunities. Otherwise we have the situation that
<span style="white-space:nowrap">Hello</span> Kitty
has a break opportunity but adding a space in the span to get
<span style="white-space:nowrap">Hello </span> Kitty
makes that break opportunity go away. It's rare for adding text to remove
line breaks, and would definitely shock users in editing situations.

Rob
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