in reply to Re^5: A call to keyboards: Better chatterbox wrapping (no <b></b>)
in thread A call to keyboards: Better chatterbox wrapping

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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Re^7: A call to keyboards: Better chatterbox wrapping (test case)
by tye (Sage) on Jan 11, 2005 at 00:22 UTC

    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>.

    - tye        

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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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        Only if it is really completely empty, ie not even blanks or breaks or any other whitespace. That much, at least, I know for sure…

        Makeshifts last the longest.

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