text-align:<string> and white space processing

During an informal spec review of CSS3 Text in Japan, a question was raised about text-align:<string>.

When
  text-align: ' ' /* a space character */
is specified, should the character-based alignment in a table column[1] run before or after white space processing[2]?

The order of the two processes may make the different results as a space character could be removed during the white space processing.

[1] http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-text/#character-alignment
[2] http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-text/#white-space-processing


Regards,
Koji

Received on Saturday, 19 February 2011 14:13:00 UTC