Text Content Rendering

Property Type - Text Arrangement and Styling

White Space

White space.  e.g.

{white-space: normal}

Property Values

normalThis value directs user agents to collapse sequences of white space, and break lines as necessary to fill line boxes.1 preThis value prevents user agents from collapsing sequences of white space. Lines are only broken at preserved newline characters.1 nowrapThis value collapses white space as for 'normal', but suppresses line breaks within text.1 pre-wrapThis value prevents user agents from collapsing sequences of white space. Lines are broken at preserved newline characters, and as necessary to fill line boxes.2 pre-lineThis value directs user agents to collapse sequences of white space. Lines are broken at preserved newline characters, and as necessary to fill line boxes.2

Newlines in the source can be represented by a carriage return (U+000D), a linefeed (U+000A) or both (U+000D U+000A) or by some other mechanism that identifies the beginning and end of document segments, such as the SGML RECORD-START and RECORD-END tokens. The CSS 'white-space' processing model assumes all newlines have been normalized to line feeds. UAs that recognize other newline representations must apply the white space processing rules as if this normalization has taken place. If no newline rules are specified for the document language, each carriage return (U+000D) and CRLF sequence (U+000D U+000A) in the document text is treated as single line feed character. This default normalization rule also applies to generated content. UAs must recognize line feeds (U+000A) as newline characters. UAs may additionally treat other forced break characters as newline characters per UAX14.

Sources and References

• https://www.w3.org/TR/CSS1/
• https://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/text.html
• https://www.w3.org/TR/css-text-3/
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/white-space