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First Public Working Draft of Text Level 4

By Alan Stearns September 22, 2015 (Permalink)
Categories: publications

The CSS Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of CSS Text Module Level 4. This module defines additional properties for text manipulation.

The main work on CSS Text is still being done in Level 3. So until that work stabilizes, CSS Text Level 4 is a diff spec containing only new and/or deferred material. This includes:

A shorthand version of white-space property that expands to new properties controlling whitespace collapsing and trimming.
New properties for controlling line breaks, including forced line breaks, balancing line lengths, and hints for where to avoid line breaks where possible.
Hyphenation properties, a character-based text-align value, and the text-spacing property deferred from the last module level.
We’re looking for review on all aspects of the draft.

As always, please send feedback to the (archived) public mailing list www-style@w3.org with the spec code ([css-text-4]) and your comment topic in the subject line. (Alternatively, you can email one of the editors and ask them to forward your comment.)

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