Re: [WSG] Preserve whitespace
Simon Cockayne wrote: This is *not* a presentation/layout issue. I have a field that contains leading blanks (space) characters that the user tells me has semantic meaning that they wish to preserve. So what do you mean by preserve? The text nodes inside tdfoo/td and td foo/td aren't equal in value, regardless of how they're displayed; they're strings with lengths of 3 and 5 characters, respectively. The space characters are certainly there, so the issue you're trying to address isn't at all clear... -- Hassan Schroeder - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webtuitive Design === (+1) 408-938-0567 === http://webtuitive.com dream. code. *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] Preserve whitespace
Simon Cockayne wrote: This is *not* a presentation/layout issue. from this i gather you mean it doesn't matter how it appears on screen to the person viewing it - in other words it doesn't matter whether it visually has any indent or not. In which case you can ignore pre, nbsp, css as they are all to do with presentation/layout I have a field that contains leading blanks (space) characters that the user tells me has semantic meaning that they wish to preserve. as its not a presentation issue then presumably it must be a programmatic one whereby the HTML hasn't reached it's end use when it gets displayed in the browser. From there I assume it will be further accessed via the DOM or by scraping or something, where the amount of whitespace at the beginning of the content gives meaning to it? If all the above is correct, then I don't see why you need to do anything other than generate the HTML with the right amount of space in it like: tdcontent/td the browser will only display one of the spaces in the above but they will still remain in the source - they won't be stripped out at any stage or have I misunderstood your question? -- Chris Knowles *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
[WSG] preserve whitespace
Hi, !-- Happy Holidays one and all! -- I have an HTML page and I want to (well my client wants me to) preserve leading blanks in the value of a table data cell. I could use pre /pre around the data. Or I could use an nbsp; for each leading blank. Any others? What is the standard way to do it? Cheers, Simon *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] preserve whitespace
td {text-indent: 1em;}
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Re: [WSG] preserve whitespace
Quoting Simon Cockayne [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have an HTML page and I want to (well my client wants me to) preserve leading blanks in the value of a table data cell. Depending on the data...right-align the text? -- Patrick H. Lauke __ re·dux (adj.): brought back; returned. used postpositively [latin : re-, re- + dux, leader; see duke.] www.splintered.co.uk | www.photographia.co.uk http://redux.deviantart.com __ Co-lead, Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force http://webstandards.org/ __ Take it to the streets ... join the WaSP Street Team http://streetteam.webstandards.org/ __ *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] preserve whitespace
The standard way is to use paddings (if your HTML page really contains table data) or not to use tables for layout purpose at all. - Konstantin Efimov http://webstandards.org.ru - Original Message - From: Simon Cockayne To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 8:09 PM Subject: [WSG] preserve whitespace Hi, !-- Happy Holidays one and all! -- I have an HTML page and I want to (well my client wants me to) preserve leading blanks in the value of a table data cell. I could use pre /pre around the data. Or I could use an nbsp; for each leading blank. Any others? What is the standard way to do it? Cheers, Simon *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
Re: [WSG] preserve whitespace
On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:09:03 +, Simon Cockayne wrote:
I have an HTML page and I want to (well my client wants me to) preserve
leading blanks
in the value of a table data cell. ...
td {white-space: pre;} /* perhaps? */
Cordially,
David
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Re: [WSG] preserve whitespace
- Original Message - From: Simon Cockayne To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 8:09 PM Subject: [WSG] preserve whitespace Hi, !-- Happy Holidays one and all! -- I have an HTML page and I want to (well my client wants me to) preserve leading blanks in the value of a table data cell. I could use pre /pre around the data. Or I could use an nbsp; for each leading blank. Any others? What is the standard way to do it? I would recommend pre over nbsp;, that way the data itself would stay clean. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.net *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***
