[Bug 28170] Reference to CSS element content in <br> and <wbr> rendering

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=28170

Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |WORKSFORME

--- Comment #13 from Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Andrea Rendine from comment #12)
> This does make sense somehow. A slow rendering means FOUC on heavy pages, so
> it's better to have something easy.
> Just hope to see it fully specified and implemented soon.
> 
> One final request before this bug is closed: will the new display- rendering
> rule allow <br> and <wbr> to be styled differently? I mean, the spec
> explicitly says that an author could design a page so that <br> are rendered
> as "green dots", another could use <wbr> to represent (soft)hyphenated
> string- or word-break. Will display-outside behavior allow for such a design?
> 
> Thanks for the piece of info about vendors. It's the point I had missed.

Yup, once you switch your rendering over to looking at the 'display' value
rather than checking tagname, that means that if the author sets it to some
*other* 'display' value, it'll render as a normal (empty) element with that
'display'.

I guess I'll go ahead and close this, then. ^_^

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Received on Tuesday, 10 March 2015 02:26:59 UTC