in reply to Re^3: A call to keyboards: Better chatterbox wrapping
in thread A call to keyboards: Better chatterbox wrapping

Didn't think of those, since I never use <b> or <i>. But semantically they're as void as <span>, so why not.

Makeshifts last the longest.

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Re^5: A call to keyboards: Better chatterbox wrapping (no <b></b>)
by tye (Sage) on Jan 10, 2005 at 23:42 UTC

    Why would a browser wrap at <b></b> ?? Neither IE nor FireFox do that for me. I'd be quite surprised at a browser that did such. They don't fold a <span></span> either.

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      Right, <b> might be special-cased because it can reasonably be assumed to occur in the middle of words. But <span> does get wrapped here (Firefox 1.0) and I remember using that ages ago in IE-land too.

      Interestingly, Opera doesn't behave as assumed either… guess I extrapolated from too few data points. :-/

      Makeshifts last the longest.

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        I tested <span></span> in FireFox 0.8 and 1.0. It certainly didn't wrap (my nodelets where wider than my screen, much less my browser window).

        Here is a test case:

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        If you view this node directly and you don't see horizontal scroll bars, then your browser is likely wrapping <span></span>.

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