- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 11:12:59 -0700
- To: Karen Menezes <karen.menezes@gmail.com>
- Cc: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Karen Menezes <karen.menezes@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi! > > Wished to inquire about white space collapse for inline-block. > > IMHO, inline block for layouting has several advantages over floats. I > understand flexbox will suffice in some cases, but it would be awesome to > have some control over the whitespace when inline-block just works. > > I generally use it when I have an unordered list, since it's not mandatory > to have closing <li> tags in HTML5. I find this the cleanest of all the > awful hacks to overcome whitespace between inline-block elements.. > > Was wondering about the status of this link? > Is this something really far away in the future? The link indicates so. > http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-text-4/#white-space-collapsing That link is indeed the plan for handling this. Whether it's far in the future or not depends entirely on browsers' willingness to implement it. ~TJ
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