- From: James Justin Harrell <herorev@yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 12:18:46 -0700 (PDT)
- To: www-style@w3.org
The current specs are unclear about whether breaks can occur between inline boxes and provide no
way for developers to specify whether such breaks can occur. This often isn't an issue because
there's usually whitespace between or within inline elements, but this means using whitespace for
presentation.
If breaks cannot occur between inline boxes, then when there's no whitespace between inline
elements and the inline elements cannot be broken (e.g. no whitespace, replaced content,
white-space:pre) the inline boxes will line up horizontally in a single line.
Example:
<div><img/><img/><img/><img/>...<img/></div>
Only the images that could fit in a single line box would be contained in the div, and the rest
would overflow.
I encountered this when I displayed the items of a list inline (i.e. li{display:inline}) and the
list overflowed horizontally to the right since there wasn't any whitespace between the li
elements and the li elements couldn't break. (tested in Firefox 2.0 and Konqueror 3.5.6) One
solution is to add spaces between the li elements, but developers should not be required to add
non-semantic markup purely for presentation.
If it's decided that breaks should not occur between inline boxes, then I'd like to see something
like "inline-wrap" for the display property where inline-wrap would be identical to inline except
that breaks could occur between inline boxes where necessary to prevent overflow.
Received on Wednesday, 1 August 2007 19:19:33 UTC