- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 11:50:49 -0500
- To: Ambrose LI <ambrose.li@gmail.com>
- CC: www-style@w3.org, www-international@w3.org
On 1/29/11 10:39 PM, Ambrose LI wrote: > 2011/1/29 Boris Zbarsky<bzbarsky@mit.edu>: >> If it's marked up (<name>,<span class="name">, whatever), then it seems >> that all that's needed on the CSS end is saying that "white-space:nowrap" >> should prevent linebreaks even at non-whitespace breaking opportunities. >> Which is what UAs do in practice, and what the spec seems to say already. >> >> Am I just missing something? > > I asked the same question a few years ago. Unfortunately, the problem > is that all the attribute that SHOULD be able to do such things either > do not act on CJK characters or do not act on anything that is not a > block. I don't follow this. white-space:nowrap (in CSS2.1) and text-wrap:none (in CSS3 text, where white-space:nowrap is a shorthand that sets text-wrap:none) work on all characters and all elements, last I checked. -Boris
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