> On Mar 11, 2015, at 10:56 AM, Alan Stearns <stearns@adobe.com> wrote:
>
>> On 3/11/15, 10:43 AM, "Brad Kemper" <brad.kemper@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Right now, 'break-before' and 'break-after' can avoid or force a column
>> break, region break, or page break. I would like something before that to
>> influence line breaking due to auto wrapping. So for instance, the actual
>> use case where this came up for me:
>>
>> <p><input type=radio value=yes /> <label>Yep</label> <input type=radio
>> value=no /> <label>Nope</label></p>
>>
>> The html doesn't have spans around each input/label group, otherwise I
>> would set each group to be 'white-space:nowrap', so that the label always
>> stays on the same line as its associated input. So instead, I'd like to
>> do this:
>>
>> input[type=radio] + label {
>> break-before: avoid-line;
>> }
>>
>> So that when a label follows a radio button, it will not wrap the line in
>> a way that breaks between them, unless it absolutely has to in order to
>> make things fit. That would actually be better than the white-space
>> version, because it would still allow breaking between if the paragraph
>> was narrower than the input/label combination.
>>
>> A side effect would be that 'avoid-line' would also keep it from breaking
>> for columns, regions, and pages too, since those breaks also break lines.
>> So we wouldn't necessarily need to retrofit the 'avoid' keyword (as in,
>> avoid breaking for columns, regions, and pages) to also avoid line
>> breaks.
>>
>> Has this been considered before? I saw the note that line-breaks are not
>> covered by this spec, but I would like to be able to use those same
>> 'break-*' properties.
>>
>> I don't think we would need a corresponding 'break-inside' value, since
>> 'white-space:nowrap' would be close enough.
>
> Take a look at wrap-before/wrap-after/wrap-inside in the latest text level
> 4. [1]
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alan
>
> [1] http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-text-4/#wrap-before
Ah, there it is. Great! I was looking at a lower level of that spec, should have seen that. Thanks.
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