- From: David Hyatt <hyatt@apple.com>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 17:31:53 -0800
- To: Michel Suignard <michelsu@microsoft.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
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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