[csswg-drafts] [css-content] content: "" should probably generate no text nodes (#9606)

emilio has just created a new issue for https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts:

== [css-content] content: "" should probably generate no text nodes ==
... because an empty text node would generate a baseline. Here's a [test-case](https://bug1855583.bmoattachments.org/attachment.cgi?id=9363953) that shows the difference on Chromium (because Chromium has a bogus optimization that prevents an empty text node from having a layout box unless editable).

https://drafts.csswg.org/css-content/#strings is not particularly clear on what exactly the generated DOM would look like for `content: ""`. Right now browsers differ but not generating a text node seems reasonable behavior, and we'd be willing to align Firefox with other browsers assuming the spec is updated to be explicit about this.

This came up in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1855583

cc: @dshin-moz, @tabatkins, @fantasai

Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/9606 using your GitHub account


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Received on Thursday, 16 November 2023 15:56:44 UTC