This is exciting! The spec says:
> UAs may treat this value as auto <https://drafts.csswg.org/css-text-4/#valdef-text-wrap-style-auto> if there are more than ten lines to balance. It would be helpful for web developers to be aware of this by showing some notice in the DevTools Inspector Rules view. I filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1851756 , but let me know if we don't plan to have such restriction in Gecko. On Tuesday, September 5, 2023 at 8:52:20 PM UTC+2 [email protected] wrote: > Summary: > > The `text-wrap: balance` property can improve the layout of short blocks > of text (a few lines, such as a long headline) by adjusting the line > lengths to be more consistent. > > ...which could become: > > The `text-wrap: balance` property can improve the layout of > short blocks of text (a few lines, such as a long headline) > by adjusting the line lengths to be more consistent. > > > Bug: > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1731541 > > Specification: > https://drafts.csswg.org/css-text-4/#text-wrap-style > [see note below] > > Standards Body: > W3C CSS Working Group > > Platform coverage: > all > > Preference: > layout.css.text-wrap-balance.enabled > > DevTools bug: > n/a > > Link to standards-positions discussion: > https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/755 > > Other browsers: > Blink: shipping (since about 114, I believe) > WebKit: WIP, see https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259958 > > web-platform-tests: > /css/css-text/white-space/text-wrap-balance-* > > > [note] > Initially, I propose to implement a simple `text-wrap` longhand > property, to support the `text-wrap: balance` usage that is quickly > becoming popular. This corresponds to what Blink currently supports. > > The CSS Working Group has resolved to restructure both the `white-space` > and `text-wrap` properties to become shorthands, with `balance` becoming > a value of the `text-wrap-style` longhand. This will be a > backward-compatible update, as `text-wrap` will become a shorthand and > will still accept the `balance` keyword. > > The restructuring of `white-space` (and associated conversion of > `text-wrap` to a shorthand) has the potential to be a bit risky, given > the number values involved and the complexity of their interactions. In > addition, final spec details are still under discussion, so it seems > premature to proceed with this right now. So I propose to leave this for > a separate task. But `text-wrap: balance`, as already implemented in > Blink, is popular with web developers and it seems desirable to provide > this in Gecko without delay. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "[email protected]" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/d/msgid/dev-platform/b0a0ba88-e496-4048-99be-dce70e4c1f95n%40mozilla.org.
