- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 09:14:37 -0700
- To: "Kenneth Kin Lum" <kenneth.kin.lum@gmail.com>
- Cc: public-html-comments@w3.org
On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 09:09:33 -0700, Kenneth Kin Lum <kenneth.kin.lum@gmail.com> wrote: > hm... so you mean HTML take all spaces to be the content... and then... > it is CSS that decides to drop them? CSS can't change content. They're just not rendered by default based on the white-space property value. > So without using <pre>, is there a The <pre> element has the CSS white-space property set to presering whitespace (the pre value) by default. You can make it act "normally" by setting white-space to normal. > way that you could intentionally or accidentally expose the spaces by > defining user defined styles? Yes, as I said in my earlier e-mail, use white-space:pre. > I hope I am not trying to be critical here. It was that I thought the > presence of space vs the absense of space does make a > difference in the final presentation. Presentation by itself is not an HTML issue. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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