[csswg-drafts] Allow use of replace with text-autospace: normal (#13774)

r12a has just created a new issue for https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts:

== Allow use of replace with text-autospace: normal ==
https://www.w3.org/TR/css-text-4/#propdef-text-autospace

Currently, the `replace` keyword for `text-autospace` has to be used with `ideographic-alpha ideographic-numeric`, and cannot be used with the `normal` keyword.

```
normal | <autospace> | auto 
<autospace> = no-autospace |
              [ ideograph-alpha || ideograph-numeric || punctuation ]
              || [ insert | replace ]
```

Not least because `normal` is the most widely implemented part of `text-autospace`, but also because it just makes sense to allow the `replace` function to be applied while using `normal`, i propose that we alter the syntax to allow `normal replace`.  That will allow content authors to normalise gap widths while using the default setting for `text-autospace`.

Since `replace` isn't yet implemented anywhere, this should hopefully be unproblematic.

Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/13774 using your GitHub account


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Received on Tuesday, 7 April 2026 06:00:59 UTC