[css-display] Explaining <br>

• From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
• Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 16:05:39 -0700
• To: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <CAAWBYDCCmWvFkkXcMor+FMdFX2=JHfcaUu0FYq5-XEH2TxsKTA@mail.gmail.com>

At the January f2f, we figured out a decent hack that seems to explain
the rendering of <br> properly:

br {
  display-box: contents;
  content: "\a";
  white-space: pre;
}

However, when Hixie was planning to add this to the HTML style sheet,
dbaron objected to it on performance reasons:
https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=25503

So, David, how bad is this?  Should we go with a different solution,
like a dedicated 'display' value just for <br> (Hixie suggested
"display: newline;" in the linked bug).

~TJ

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