Re: multiple white-space

From: Bjoern Hoehrmann (derhoermi@gmx.net)
Date: Sat, Sep 15 2001

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    From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
    To: Jochem Heicke <jhl@surfeu.de>
    Cc: validator <www-validator@w3.org>
    Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 03:40:28 +0200
    Message-ID: <gus7qtsrbmr1dlkkn937p9fbe5fbc43svj@4ax.com>
    Subject: Re: multiple white-space
    
    * Jochem Heicke wrote:
    >Thanks to those who responded.
    >
    >A validated page with a construct
    ><pre><select><option> ... </pre>
    >
    >needed additionally
    ><STYLE>
    >option { white-space: pre;}
    >
    >to have Mozilla 0.9.3 display white spaces inside an option.
    
    >I wonder whether this behaviour is according to documentation.
    
    It's AFAICT okay for HTML documents but not okay for XHTML 1.0
    documents. In fact, CSS's white space preservation properties don't
    apply to XHTML documents most of the time.
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