Ralf Sternberg schrieb: > Hi Sebastian, > > Sebastian Werner schrieb: >> If you want to respect these spaces you need to replace them with >>  . Otherwise they simply get ignored. A typical HTML feature :) > > Thanks, I know that HTML has that behavior for block elements. But since > qooxdoo is not a library for writing HTML documents in the first place > but a GUI toolkit, I cannot consider this a feature. When I set the text > of a Label, I expect the Label to display exactly this text. > > Do you say that my expectation was true and the text size calculation > fails for strings with leading or trailing whitespace?
It does not fail. But it does it wrong :) > > I guess there are ways to work around that. For example, if the CSS > property "display" is set to "inline", the whitespace is not swallowed. IMGO there are not workarounds possible with CSS. "inline" also configures the flow control. Nothing more, nothing less. Sebastian > > Ralf > > >> Ralf Sternberg schrieb: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I use a HorizontalBoxLayout with some Labels in it like this: >>> >>> +----------------------------------------+ >>> | +----------+ +---------+ +-----------+ | >>> | | "Hello " | | "cruel" | | " World!" | | >>> | +----------+ +---------+ +-----------+ | >>> +----------------------------------------+ >>> >>> The leading and trailing whitespaces in the text of the Labels are >>> ignored, resulting in a connected layout with missing spaces between the >>> single words. >>> The spaces occur in the DOM, but are ignored by the layout. Maybe this >>> is because XML swallows the whitespace at the beginning and the end of a >>> <div> (xml:space = default), and the layout algorithm simply measures >>> the size of a div that contains the text? If yes, this would generally >>> result in a wrong text size computation if a string has leading or >>> trailing whitespace. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Ralf > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > qooxdoo-devel mailing list > qooxdoo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qooxdoo-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ qooxdoo-devel mailing list qooxdoo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qooxdoo-devel
