xml:space (HTML attribute)
| Depr. | Version |
|---|---|
| No | XHTML 1.0 |
Example
The script white
spaces set to "preserve" in XHTML 1.0:
<style type="text/css" xml:space="preserve">
#nav {color:red;}
#logo {color:lime;}
#branding {color:black;}
</style>
Description
If the formatting and alignment
of your CSS markup is incredibly important to you, you can use the
xml:space attribute in XHTML 1.0 documents to
ensure that whitespace is not collapsed/removed according to the rules
defined in XHTML modularization.
Value
"preserve" only (to
not preserve whitespace, simply omit attribute)
Compatibility
User-contributed notes
- ID:
- #1
- Date:
- Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:57:11 GMT
You can't make a UA not preserve whitespace by omitting this attribute, since it's declared as #FIXED with a value of "preserve".
In theory, a UA with a non-validating parser could miss it, but such a UA would need to have this hardcoded.
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