- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 00:08:12 +0000 (UTC)
On Fri, 19 Jan 2007, Sam Ruby wrote:
>
> People often code things like the following:
>
> <pre>
> one
> two
> three
> </pre>
>
> Visually, this ends up looking something like
>
> +-------+
> | |
> | one |
> | two |
> | three |
> +-------+
>
> with the following CSS rule:
>
> pre { border: solid 1px #000; }
>
> [in standards mode]
I couldn't reproduce this. In Firefox trunk, with:
http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/?%3C%21DOCTYPE%20html%3E%3Cstyle%3Epre%20%7B%20border%3A%20solid%3B%20%7D%3C/style%3E%0A%3Cpre%3E%0Ax%0A%3C/pre%3E
...I get the leading newline dropped.
If it did do it, in HTML4, it would have been a stardards mode bug (bug
2750, which I filed back in 1999).
In HTML5, we're dropping that requirement, since everyone ignores it.
However, we will, as you point out, have to introduce a special behaviour
for a newline at the start of a <pre> element. IE actually does it for
more than just the <pre> element (e.g. it does it for <p>, though not
<span>) but compatibility with the Web only seems to require it for <pre>
since that's all that the other browsers do it for.
Fixed.
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Received on Friday, 19 January 2007 16:08:12 UTC