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Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 23:09:01 +0200
From: Jochem Heicke <jhl@surfeu.de>
To: Jochem Heicke <jhl@surfeu.de>
CC: validator <www-validator@w3.org>
Subject: Re: multiple white-space
As there are obviously some STRANGE behaviours due to the specs. Would
it be possible to give a WARNING in such cases.
According to the developers of Mozilla due to the specs an OPTION is
forced to be "white-space:nowrap". This implies "normal" and overwrites
any given PRE formatting.
The spec really seems not to allow monospace-formatting without wrapping,
well done :-(
Jochem Heicke
16.6 Whitespace: the 'white-space' property
'white-space'
Value: normal | pre | nowrap | inherit
Initial: normal
Applies to: block-level elements
Inherited: yes
Percentages: N/A
Media: visual
This property declares how whitespace inside the element is handled.
Values have the following meanings:
normal
This value directs user agents to collapse sequences of whitespace, and
break lines as necessary to fill line boxes. Additional line breaks may
be created by occurrences of "\A" in generated content (e.g., for the BR
element in HTML). pre
This value prevents user agents from collapsing sequences of whitespace.
Lines are only broken at newlines in the source, or at occurrences of
"\A" in generated content. nowrap
This value collapses whitespace as for 'normal', but suppresses line
breaks within text except for those created by "\A" in generated content
(e.g., for the BR element in HTML).