[css4-text] A non-inherited property to control behavior of whitespace-only child boxes from Boris Zbarsky on 2012-03-28 (www-style@w3.org from March 2012)

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 14:34:57 -0700
To: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
Message-ID: <4F738401.5000102@mit.edu>

We keep running into situations where markup contains "non-semantic" 
whitespace.  This includes whitespace between flex item, whitespace 
between internal table parts, in some cases whitespace between 
inline-block kids of a block.  I expect the list to grow.

Would it make sense to have a property (non-inherited) to allow 
suppressing such whitespace-only child boxes when the author wants them 
suppressed?

-Boris

Received on Wednesday, 28 March 2012 21:40:57 UTC