Put it another way, rendered spaces at the end of a line almost always looks uglier than if the spaces are collapsed.
/ Jonas Jonas Sicking wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Consider the following testcase: >> <div style="white-space:-moz-pre-wrap; font-size:200px;"><span >> style="background:yellow;">Hello Kitty</span></div> >> >> When the line breaks, how should the space be treated? Should it be >> displayed in yellow at the end of the line? Or should it collapse away >> to nothing? >> >> Right now on trunk it is displayed --- until you make the window >> narrow enough that the space overflows on the right, then it >> disappears. This seems clearly wrong. >> >> Consider also the variant with two spaces. Currently they are both >> displayed, and then both disappear. >> >> I kinda lean towards always displaying the spaces, just on the grounds >> that preformatted spaces should always be displayed. > > Wouldn't that mean that you could get very ugly margins? Say for markup > like > > <div style="white-space:-moz-pre-wrap; border: 5px solid black;"> > <span style="background:yellow"> > Word Word Word Word Word Word... > </span> > </div> > > The spaces between the words might overlap into the margin of the div, > and that overlap will vary from row to row. I've seen some editing > programs do this when you select text (i.e. the selected spaces off the > end are rendered) and it looks horrible. > > I would suggest we always collapse them instead. I suspect people are > using white-space:pre and white-space:-moz-pre-wrap to get spaces > between words rendered, not spaces at the end of lines. _______________________________________________ dev-tech-layout mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-layout
