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[css2] User agents may skip certain properties in the case of HTML: letter-spacing, justify, word-spacing, text-transform, white-space
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
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<html lang="en">
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<!-- $Id: text.src,v 1.28 1997-12-29 22:03:20 ijacobs Exp $ -->
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<!-- $Id: text.src,v 1.29 1998-01-08 20:20:43 ijacobs Exp $ -->
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<HEAD>
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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
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<TITLE>Text</TITLE>
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class="propinst-text-align">'text-align'</span> inherits, all
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block-level elements inside the DIV element with 'class=center' will
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be centered. Note that alignments are relative to the width of the
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element, not the <a href="media.html#canvas">canvas</a>. If 'justify'
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element, not the <a href="intro.html#canvas">canvas</a>. If 'justify'
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is not supported, the UA will supply a replacement. Typically, this
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will be 'left' for western languages.
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</PRE>
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</div>
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<P> UAs may treat 'justify' as 'left' or 'right', depending on whether
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the element's default writing direction is left-to-right or
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<P><span class="index-inst" title="conformance"><a
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href="convent.html#conformance">Conforming HTML user agents</a></span> may
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interpret the value 'justify' as 'left' or 'right', depending on
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whether the element's default writing direction is left-to-right or
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right-to-left, respectively.
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<H2>Decoration</H2>
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'auto' behavior.
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<!-- end proposed -->
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<P>UAs may interpret any value of <span
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class="propinst-letter-spacing">'letter-spacing'</span> as
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'normal'. See the section on <a
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href="convent.html#conformance">conformance</a> for more information.
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<P><span class="index-inst" title="conformance"><a
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href="convent.html#conformance">Conforming HTML user agents</a></span> may
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consider the value of the <span
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class="propinst-letter-spacing">'letter-spacing'</span> property to be
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'normal'.
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<!-- #include src=properties/word-spacing.srb -->
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</PRE>
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</div>
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<P>UAs may interpret any value of <span
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class="propinst-word-spacing">'word-spacing'</span> as 'normal'. See
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the section on <a href="convent.html#conformance">conformance</a> for
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more information.
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<P><span class="index-inst" title="conformance"><a
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href="convent.html#conformance">Conforming HTML user agents</a></span> may
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consider the value of the <span
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class="propinst-word-spacing">'word-spacing'</span> property to be
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'normal'.
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<H2>Case</H2>
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<P> The actual transformation in each case is human language
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dependent. See <a rel="biblioentry"
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href="./refs.html#ref-RFC2070" class="normref">[RFC2070]</a> for ways to find the
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language of an element.
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<P> UAs may ignore <span
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class="propinst-text-transform">'text-transform'</span> (i.e., treat
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it as 'none') for characters that are not from the Latin-1 repertoire
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and for elements in languages for which the transformation is
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different from that specified by the case-conversion tables of <a
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rel="biblioentry" href="./refs.html#ref-UNICODE" class="normref">[UNICODE]</a>.
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dependent. See <a rel="biblioentry" href="./refs.html#ref-RFC2070"
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class="normref">[RFC2070]</a> for ways to find the language of an
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element.
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<P><span class="index-inst" title="conformance"><a
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href="convent.html#conformance">Conforming HTML user agents</a></span> may
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consider the value of <span
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class="propinst-text-transform">'text-transform'</span> to be 'none'
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for characters that are not from the Latin-1 repertoire and for
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elements in languages for which the transformation is different from
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that specified by the case-conversion tables of <a rel="biblioentry"
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href="./refs.html#ref-UNICODE" class="normref">[UNICODE]</a>.
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<div class="example"><P>
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<P> The initial value of 'white-space' is 'normal', but a UA will
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typically have default values for each element.
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<P> UAs may ignore the 'white-space' property in author's and reader's
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style sheets, and use the UA's default values instead. See the section
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on <a href="convent.html#conformance">conformance</a> for more information.
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<P> The initial value of <span
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class="propinst-white-space">'white-space'</span> is 'normal', but a
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UA will typically have default values for each element.
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<P><span class="index-inst" title="conformance"><a
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href="convent.html#conformance">Conforming HTML user agents</a></span>
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may <span class="index-inst" title="skip"><a
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href="syndata.html#skip">skip</a></span> the <span
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class="propinst-white-space">'white-space'</span> property in author
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and user style sheets but must specify a value for it in the default
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style sheet.
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<H2>Text in HTML</H2>
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<H3>Forcing a line break</H3>

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