- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 14:16:53 -0800
- To: www-style@w3.org
On 11/24/2012 08:11 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 2:48 AM, Behrang Saeedzadeh <behrangsa@gmail.com> wrote: >> As you know, at the moment, in order to create a somehow readable HTML page, >> we either are forced to using comments or set the font-size of the parent >> element to 0 and set it back to 1rem or something similar: >> >> <div> >> <div>foo</div><!-- >> --><div>bar</div><!-- >> --><div>baz</div> >> </div> >> >> I think we need a more elegant way for suppressing white space (or any text) >> inside an element (and not its children) in CSS. > > As Phillippe said, the 'text-space-collapse' property, currently > sitting in Text 4 > <http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css4-text/#white-space-collapsing>, addresses > this. The problem, and the major reason it got deferred, is that 'white-space' inherits, and for this situation you don't want an inheriting behavior. We'd need to have two different white space properties: one that inherits and one that doesn't. ~fantasai
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