[svgwg] [SVG2] Drop inline-size attribute on text element from SVG2 (#1087) from Karl Dubost via GitHub on 2026-04-07 (public-svg-issues@w3.org from April 2026)

From: Karl Dubost via GitHub <noreply@w3.org>
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2026 07:31:33 +0000
To: public-svg-issues@w3.org
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karlcow has just created a new issue for https://github.com/w3c/svgwg:

== [SVG2] Drop inline-size attribute on text element from SVG2 ==
`inline-size` is an attribute which is defined on the `text` element

[inline-size-testcases.html](https://github.com/user-attachments/files/26530103/inline-size-testcases.html)

<img width="3162" height="838" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c512bc26-71a7-4b5a-b040-6cfa00caeba7" />


```
<svg width="600" height="200" viewBox="0 0 600 200">
    <rect width="600" height="200" fill="none" stroke="red" stroke-dasharray="4"></rect>
    <!-- wrapping area visualization -->
    <rect x="10" y="0" width="200" height="200" fill="none" stroke="blue" stroke-dasharray="2"></rect>


    <text x="10" y="30" font-size="16" font-family="sans-serif" inline-size="200">The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 


</text>
</svg>
```

🔴 *It doesn't wrap in any browsers. This is not implemented.* 

This is also probably related to #942 



Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/svgwg/issues/1087 using your GitHub account


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