Re: [css3-text] Feature request: "white-space: ignore"

On 04/18/2013 05:23 PM, Jon Ronnenberg wrote:
> Hi guys.
>
> I just want to point out that Bert's feature request could help sooth a much bigger issue that we (front end devs) are
> battling with fluid grid systems. As the discussions at https://github.com/csswizardry/inuit.css/issues/194 and
> https://github.com/csswizardry/inuit.css/issues/170 show.
>
> As the CSS3 Text Module <http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-text/#white-space> is still a working draft, would anyone mind that,
> 'white-space': discard|ignore is written into the draft? There is already a note, ISSUE 3, that states /"There have been
> requests for the ability to "discard" white space; the current definition has no facility for this."/

As was mentioned earlier in this thread, use Flexbox.
Inline-blocks were not designed for that kind of layout;
that's why they don't collapse away the white space.
   http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-flexbox/

~fantasai