Re: [CSS21] Concern about anonymous table objects and whitespace from Boris Zbarsky on 2008-03-04 (www-style@w3.org from March 2008)

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:52:37 -0600
To: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
CC: www-style Mailing List <www-style@w3.org>
Message-ID: <47CCF1B5.8040202@mit.edu>

fantasai wrote:
> 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?

Not really, because the white-space:pre style means that this whitespace would 
not be collapsed away.

-Boris

Received on Tuesday, 4 March 2008 06:53:00 UTC