Re: Rules for breaking at inline boundaries?

What happens when I put left/right borders/margins/padding on the 
spans?  Visually they're going to look distinct now.  Do I still treat 
them as a single run?

dave

On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 05:12 PM, Michel Suignard wrote:

> IMO,
> As long as they are inflow (no weird positioning), the characters of 
> the
> various span should behave as a single run within the line and obey the
> usual line breaking rules based on line-breaking opportunities. In the
> case below there are no line breaking opportunities. If the characters
> were all ideographs, you would have a line breaking opportunity for 
> each
> of them.
>
> Michel
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Hyatt [mailto:hyatt@apple.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 5:01 PM
> To: www-style@w3.org
> Subject: Rules for breaking at inline boundaries?
>
>
>
> Is a user agent permitted to break at inline boundaries, or should a
> lack of whitespace mean that you are dealing with a single word?
>
> For example (assume white-space: normal):
>
> <span>D</span><span>a</span><span>v</span><span>e</span>
>
> Is this a single word, "Dave", or can a user agent break the line in
> between any of the inlines?  If it is considered a single word, what
> happens if some of the <span>s have borders, margins or padding?
>
> dave
> (hyatt@apple.com)
>

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