Re: [css4-text] A non-inherited property to control behavior of whitespace-only child boxes from Boris Zbarsky on 2012-03-28 (www-style@w3.org from March 2012)

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:47:53 -0700
To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
CC: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
Message-ID: <4F739519.4050901@mit.edu>

On 3/28/12 3:43 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
> So this would control whether or not we throw away direct text-node
> children of an element.

Whitespace-only text-node children.

> 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.

Yeah, that seems reasonable.

-Boris

Received on Wednesday, 28 March 2012 22:48:32 UTC