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in thread A call to keyboards: Better chatterbox wrapping

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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Re^6: A call to keyboards: Better chatterbox wrapping (no <b></b>)
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Jan 10, 2005 at 23:57 UTC

    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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        Interesting. Firefox does break up such markup, but only into two lines and no more, and then only if the browser window is very narrow.

        Makeshifts last the longest.

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        If the contents of a <foo> / </foo> set are empty, isn't a browser allowed to discard them?

        Just going from memory, though.

        --MidLifeXis

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