17764 2012-07-12 21:04:18 +0000 Inconsistency between computed value of 'letter-spacing' and 'word-spacing' 2012-12-04 00:52:08 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified CSS CSS Level 2 unspecified All Windows 3.1 NEW http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/text.html#spacing-props P2 normal --- 1 glenn bert antonsforums public-css-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 69920 0 glenn 2012-07-12 21:04:18 +0000 In CSS2.1 [1], the computed value of letter-spacing is specified to be: Computed value: 'normal' or absolute length In contrast, the computed value of word-spacing is specified to be: Computed value: for 'normal' the value '0'; otherwise the absolute length There appears to be no reason why these are different, i.e., the computed value of letter-spacing should take the same formulation as for word-spacing. The present situation presents some uncertainty for the implementation of CSSOM getComputedStyle().letterSpacing, which, by the above, would appear to dictate returning the string 'normal' instead of '0'. It is also possibly a problem that either of these should return '0' instead of '0px', which is more consistent with returning a resolved (used) length value. I recommend that the language of both of these properties specify computed value as follows: Computed value: for 'normal' the value '0px'; otherwise the absolute length [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/text.html#spacing-props