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[css-display] Do empty text nodes generate text runs? #1808

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Loirooriol opened this issue Sep 12, 2017 · 6 comments
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[css-display] Do empty text nodes generate text runs? #1808

Loirooriol opened this issue Sep 12, 2017 · 6 comments

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@Loirooriol
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Loirooriol commented Sep 12, 2017

Do text nodes with an empty string value generate a text run or not?

The difference will affect run-in layout:

If a run-in sequence is immediately followed by a block box [...]

And it's also observable in flow layout. According to CSS 2.2,

Line boxes that contain no text [...] must be treated as not existing [...]

I guess "text" refers to text runs. See https://jsfiddle.net/rs94bpay/

<div><div>Foo</div></div>
div {
  white-space: pre;
  border: 1px solid blue;
}
document.querySelector('div').prepend('');

Firefox does not discard the line because of the text node, Chrome and Edge do.

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SelenIT commented Sep 12, 2017

The behavior of Firefox looks like a bug. The script doesn't add any white space characters that should be taken into account by white-space property. Interestingly, the same issue occurs for body > div::before { content: '' } instead of prepending empty string with the script.

@fantasai fantasai added the css-display-3 Current Work label Sep 14, 2017
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That's super weird, and it's definitely a bug. Different DOMs that output the same source code should not result in different CSS output, ever.

@SelenIT ::before { content: '' } is a little different, it causes the ::before pseudo-element to exist, and empty inline boxes count as content that causes a line box to exist.

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SelenIT commented Sep 14, 2017

empty inline boxes count as content that causes a line box to exist

They do, but shouldn't they be treated as "not existing for any other [than positioning out-of-flow descendants] purpose" phantom line boxes?

@Loirooriol
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@fantasai If I understand correctly, you mean that

  • An empty text node generates no text run.
  • A ::before or ::after with content: '' generates an empty text run.

Is that correct?

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@Loirooriol A ::before or ::after with content: '' generates a box containing nothing.

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@SelenIT That depends on if they are assigned any other styles. :)

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