26264 2014-07-04 08:31:04 +0000 The <wbr> style should be along the lines of wbr::after { content: '\200B'; white-space: normal; }. 2017-01-24 21:03:35 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified CSS Display unspecified Other other NEW http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#br-wbr-content whatwg-resolved P3 normal --- 1 contributor jackalmage annevk dbaron fantasai.bugs ian jackalmage jyasskin mike zcorpan public-css-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 108717 0 contributor 2014-07-04 08:31:04 +0000 Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/rendering.html Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#br-wbr-content Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#br-wbr-content Referrer: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/index.html Comment: The <wbr> style should be along the lines of wbr::after { content: '\200B'; white-space: normal; }. http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/generate.html#propdef-content says 'content' only applies to the ::before and ::after pseudo-elements, so the current style has no effect, and putting the 'white-space' property directly on the <wbr> would establish the interaction with whitespace-affecting styles and elements other than <nobr>. Chrome and Safari currently implement a behavior like my suggestion; Firefox does not. Posted from: 173.228.80.34 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/37.0.2062.3 Safari/537.36 108769 1 ian 2014-07-07 21:50:26 +0000 'content' will apply to elements directly in due course. We're just a bit ahead of CSS right now. 109551 2 ian 2014-07-30 05:57:20 +0000 Though maybe we should do <wbr> similar to <br>, with a special 'display-something' value, to make the styling more efficient... 111200 3 ian 2014-09-08 21:53:57 +0000 dbaron, Tab: since <br> is now defined as "display-outside: newline", should <wbr> be similarly defined ("display-outside: break-opportunity" or something)? Or should we continue to define it as "wbr { content: '\200B'; }" ? 111851 4 ian 2014-09-19 21:40:47 +0000 I've made it be "display-outside: break-opportunity". Reassigning to Tab for the CSS side. 111852 5 contributor 2014-09-19 21:41:24 +0000 Checked in as WHATWG revision r8798. Check-in comment: Get HTML ahead of CSS for the definition of 'wbr'. https://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=8797&to=8798 128408 6 fantasai.bugs 2017-01-24 19:32:50 +0000 The CSSWG believes that wbr { all: reset !important; display: contents !important; content: "\200B" !important; } should be sufficient to address this issue and address all concerns, and has therefore declined to add a new display type for this element. Please follow up on https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/610 if you believe this is not the case. Thanks~ 128411 7 fantasai.bugs 2017-01-24 19:36:47 +0000 Sorry, that should be s/reset/unset/ https://www.w3.org/TR/css-cascade/#inherit-initial 128412 8 zcorpan 2017-01-24 21:03:35 +0000 Thanks, filed https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/2291 to track this for HTML.