27450 2014-11-27 00:08:02 +0000 Any content inside wbr elements must not be considered part of the surrounding text. Which content??? it is an ampty element 2015-08-28 15:01:09 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WHATWG HTML unspecified Other other RESOLVED FIXED https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#the-wbr-element P3 normal Unsorted 1 contributor ian annevk ian mike senol.veli contributor oldest_to_newest 115579 0 contributor 2014-11-27 00:08:02 +0000 Specification: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/semantics.html Multipage: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/#the-wbr-element Complete: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#the-wbr-element Referrer: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/ Comment: Any content inside wbr elements must not be considered part of the surrounding text. Which content??? it is an ampty element Posted from: 77.187.158.216 by senol.veli@gmail.com User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.65 Safari/537.36 115636 1 ian 2014-11-28 04:13:28 +0000 <script> var wbr = document.createElement('wbr'); wbr.textContent = 'hello'; document.body.appendChild(wbr); </script> 115671 2 senol.veli 2014-11-28 14:44:07 +0000 Thanks, I think this or something similar should be added to explain in the spec. 115755 3 ian 2014-12-01 19:17:00 +0000 Is the text here sufficient, or do you think this specific case should be called out more explicitly?: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#how-to-read-this-specification 115833 4 senol.veli 2014-12-03 13:52:43 +0000 I think it should be more detailed, best regards 122853 5 annevk 2015-08-28 15:01:09 +0000 Thank you for the suggestion. Fixed: https://github.com/whatwg/html/commit/c8c2f78a7571b83aebe421db21ed37b964f4c7b1