- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:24:14 -0800
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
- CC: www-style Mailing List <www-style@w3.org>
Boris Zbarsky wrote: > > Consider the following markup (assuming the usual default HTML styling): > > <body style="white-space: pre"> > <div style="display:table-cell">One</div> > <div style="display:table-cell">Two</div> > </body> > > with the whitespace exactly as it is in the example. Let us denote the > whitespace-only Text node between the two HTMLDivElement nodes by the > letter W. > > What is the correct rendering? > > Per section 16.6.1 [1], any text that is "directly contained inside a > block element" is treated as an anonymous inline. Does this apply to W? Hixie points out that the answer here is "no" because of http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#anonymous # Whitespace content that would subsequently be collapsed away according # to the 'white-space' property does not generate any anonymous inline # boxes. Does that resolve this issue? ~fantasai
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