css conditional new line starting/creation feature based upon textfitting on the same line.

Re: css conditional new line starting/creation feature based upon text fitting on the same line.

On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 15:21:42 +0300, Marek Mänd <cador.soft@mai l.ee>
wrote:
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><q cite="http://www.president.e e/est/ametitegevus/?gid=10628">
>Kelleltki ei tohi veendumuste pärast võtta Eesti kodakondsust.
></q><span class="quoteref erence">(Eesti Vabariigi põhiseadus, II
>peatükk, PÕHIÕIGUSED, VABADUSED JA KOHUSTUSED, § 8)</span>
><hr/>[/color]

Use HTML instead of that X misnomer. Mark it up this way...

<q cite="http://www.president.e e/est/ametitegevus/?gid=10628"[color=blue]
>Kelleltki ei tohi veendumuste pärast võtta Eesti[/color]
kodakondsust.</q><span class="quoteref erence"
[color=blue]
>(Eesti&nbsp;Va bariigi&nbsp;põ hiseadus,&nbsp; II&nbsp;peatükk ,&nbsp;PÕHIÕIGU SED,&nbsp;VABAD USED&nbsp;JA&nb sp;KOHUSTUSED,& nbsp;§&nbsp;8)</span
><hr>[/color]

....and it should render as you want and be pretty reliable in most
browsers.
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>What shall the CSS be for:
>"when the span.quoterefer ence wouldnt fit as a whole on the textline
>that the quote (q) element is on, start the span.quoterefer ence on the
>new textline" ?[/color]

None; this is not really a CSS issue.
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>Can't be done in CSS?[/color]

Nope.
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>Why not?[/color]

Because there is already a character defined in Unicode to represent a
non breaking space, use a powerful enough editor and you could enter
that character directly instead of a standard ASCII space.

Or for better browser support, insert the &nbsp; named entity reference
and let the browser use it's own programmed method to avoid breaking
lines at white space areas. (Yukka might argue that the use of a <nobr>
element is an easier approach ;-)
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>What concepts there are in CSS3 drafts for this ;D[/color]

None I hope; since that would involve a definition of a white space
hunting procedure, and CSS is not defined to be a programming language,
its purpose is to be descriptive only.
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>Do the regulars of here have ever had thoughts about such a powerful
>enhanced formatting feature?[/color]

What's so powerful in being able to use CSS to hunt down browser
inserted new lines? You would like your markup to render good even when
CSS is off or not available, no?

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Rex