- From: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 17:10:18 -0700
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: Daniel Holbert <dholbert@mozilla.com>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Apr 5, 2012, at 4:20 PM, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 12:00 AM, Daniel Holbert <dholbert@mozilla.com> wrote: >> Hi www-style, >> >> Currently, I don't believe the spec makes any mention of how to handle >> whitespace between flexbox items. (whether it's ignored or counts as >> "non-replaced inline children" and triggers an anonymous flexbox item) >> >> Consider e.g. the following testcase: >> <div style="display: flexbox"> >> <img> >> <img> >> </div> >> >> My guess is that we'd that to only generate 2 flexbox items, right? >> (rather than 5 items, which we'd get if we counted the whitespace at the >> beginning / middle / end as anonymous-flexbox-item-worthy) >> >> It'd probably be good to clarify this, as rendering engines _do_ generate >> boxes for runs of whitespace in many cases (which are then sometimes >> collapsed and sometimes not). > > I've added the following sentence to the third list item in the > flexbox generation section: "If the contents of the anonymous box > would be solely an anonymous inline containing only whitespace, the > box is not generated, and the whitespace is removed from the box > tree." Wouldn't you want to also collapse away any whitespace before and after any untagged non-whitespace content?
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