"white-space: pre;" and IE

I have the following rule:
#textarea { white-space: pre; }

I also have this:

The files in this directory are necessary for GVim Portable to
function.
There is normally no need to directly access or alter any of the
files
within these directories.


Notice the newlines both at the start and at the end of the text
block. IE just ignores them. FF2 handles them correctly.

Re: "white-space: pre;" and IE

On Wed, 30 May 2007 02:54:07 GMT scribed:

> I have the following rule:
> #textarea { white-space: pre; }
>
> I also have this:
>
> The files in this directory are necessary for GVim Portable to
> function.
> There is normally no need to directly access or alter any of the
> files
> within these directories.
>
>
> Notice the newlines both at the start and at the end of the text
> block. IE just ignores them. FF2 handles them correctly.

Okay. What's the point, though?

--
Neredbojias
He who laughs last sounds like an idiot.

Re: "white-space: pre;" and IE

Scripsit noagbodjivictor@gmail.com:

> I have the following rule:
> #textarea { white-space: pre; }

As usual, you should have posted the URL, as you will see...

(And you should not use a name like "textarea" - it is just confusing, since
HTML has the element.)<br /> <br /> > I also have this:<br /> > <td id="textarea"><br /> > The files in this directory are necessary for GVim Portable to<br /> > function.<br /> > There is normally no need to directly access or alter any of the<br /> > files<br /> > within these directories.<br /> > </td><br /> <br /> Why do you want to use preformatted text here? And rather uneven line <br /> lengths at that! (Hint: Here's _one_ reason why you should have posted a <br /> URL: your (excuse for a) newsreader probably split your lines.)<br /> <br /> Preformatted text is _bad_ for normal text.<br /> <br /> > Notice the newlines both at the start and at the end of the text<br /> > block. IE just ignores them. FF2 handles them correctly.<br /> <br /> Surprisingly, IE is correct here.<br /> "SGML (see [ISO8879], section 7.6.1) specifies that a line break immediately <br /> following a start tag must be ignored, as must a line break immediately <br /> before an end tag. This applies to all HTML elements without exception."<br /> http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/appendix/notes.html#h-B.3.1<br /> <br /> On the other hand, browsers are know to violate such rules, and if IE gets <br /> this right, it probably gets it right by accident only. The safe way is to <br /> avoid such linebreaks, writing<br /> <br /> <tagname ...>text<br /> more text<br /> more text<br /> last line</tagname><br /> <br /> My Firefox 2 correctly ignores those line breaks, so what does your document <br /> really contain and which version of Firefox 2 are you using.<br /> <br /> Naturally, things change (both in principle and on those browsers) if the <br /> tag <td id="textarea"> is actually followed by a _space_ before the newline.<br /> <br /> By the way, which doctype are you using? IE (both 6 and 7) ignores <br /> white-space: pre in Quirks Mode. Hint: If you specify the URL when asking a <br /> question, you won't have to wait for a few rounds of discussion just to make <br /> your problem _analyzable_.<br /> <br /> -- <br /> Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")<br /> http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/</p> </article> <footer> <a href="/">Index</a> | <a href="/impressum.php">Impressum</a> | <a href="/datenschutz.php">Datenschutz</a> | <a href="https://www.xodox.de/">XODOX</a> </footer> </main> </body> </html>