- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:43:36 -0700
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
- Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote: > We keep running into situations where markup contains "non-semantic" > whitespace. This includes whitespace between flex item, whitespace between > internal table parts, in some cases whitespace between inline-block kids of > a block. I expect the list to grow. > > Would it make sense to have a property (non-inherited) to allow suppressing > such whitespace-only child boxes when the author wants them suppressed? So this would control whether or not we throw away direct text-node children of an element. I'm okay with that. Presumably we'd still let layout modes define their default handling of whitespace, with the property having a default value of "auto" that respects that. ~TJ
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