Bug 60264 – Implement white-space-collapse: preserve-spaces (CSS Text 4) [useful for SVG]

• Status: NEW
• Component: CSS

[Yves Van Goethem]

This is still in draft but it would be a really good feature for web designers to achieve more graphic consistency across different browsers.

[Shane Stephens]

Test code at http://jsfiddle.net/E2uVu/

[Brent Fulgham]

This was renamed to 'text-space-collapse', and mostly ignored by browser vendors.

[Radar WebKit Bug Importer]

<rdar://problem/96911015>

[Karl Dubost]

https://drafts.csswg.org/css-text-4/#white-space-collapsing
> This section is still under discussion and may change in future drafts.


> Renamed text-space-collapse and text-space-trim to white-space-collapse and white-space-trim. (Issue 8273)
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-text-4/#:~:text=Renamed%20text%2Dspace%2Dcollapse%20and%20text%2Dspace%2Dtrim%20to%20white%2Dspace%2Dcollapse%20and%20white%2Dspace%2Dtrim.%20(Issue%208273)

text-space-collapse -> white-space-collapse
text-space-trim -> white-space-trim

> preserve-spaces
This value prevents user agents from collapsing sequences of white space, and converts tabs and segment breaks to spaces. (This value is intended to represent the behavior of xml:space="preserve" in SVG.)

[Karl Dubost]

white-space-collapse the property is inside WebKit code, of its six CSS Text 4 values:
    - collapse, preserve, preserve-breaks, break-spaces — implemented
    - discard, preserve-spaces — explicitly marked "status": "unimplemented" in CSSProperties.json

Let's scope this bug white-space-collapse: preserve-spaces
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-text-4/#valdef-white-space-collapse-preserve-spaces