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[css2] Removed section on letter-spacing: auto, reworded line break section
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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 2.3 1998-02-11 23:43:32 ijacobs Exp $ -->
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<!-- $Id: text.src,v 2.4 1998-02-12 22:55:22 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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href="visuren.html#line-box">line box</a> of a block align with
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respect to the line box. (Note that alignment is not with respect to
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the <a href="visuren.html#viewport">viewport</a> but the current <a
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href="visuren.html#containing-block">containing block</a>.)
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href="visudet.html#containing-block">containing block</a>.)
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<P>Values have the following meanings:</P>
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addition to the default space between
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characters. Values may be negative, but there may be
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implementation-specific limits.
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<dt><strong>auto</strong>
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<dd><!-- proposed -->
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This value tells the user agent to adjust the spacing
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between characters so that the entire text of an element fits on one
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line. This value should only be used with special elements (e.g.,
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headlines). See also the <span
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class="propinst-font-size">'font-size'</span> property for related
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'auto' behavior.
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<!-- end proposed -->
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</dl>
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<P>Character spacing algorithms are user agent-dependent. Character
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BLOCKQUOTE { letter-spacing: 0.1em }
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</PRE>
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<P>This will not happen if <span
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class="propinst-letter-spacing">'letter-spacing'</span> is explicitly
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set to a <span class="value-inst-length">&lt;length&gt;</span> value,
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as in:
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<P>In the following example, the user agent is not permitted
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to alter inter-character space, nor to add space:</p>
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<PRE>
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BLOCKQUOTE { letter-spacing: 0 }
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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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<H3>Line breaks</H3>
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<p>HTML has a &lt;BR&gt; element that forces a line break. In CSS2, an
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explicit line break can be created with the <a href=
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"generate.html#before-after-content">`:before' or `:after'</a>
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pseudo-elements. The default rule for the BR element of HTML is as
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follows:
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<p>To force a line break with CSS2, authors may specify one with the
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<a href= "generate.html#before-after-content">`:before' or
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`:after'</a> pseudo-elements. Thus, the BR element in HTML
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may be described as follows:</p>
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<pre class="example">
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BR:before {content: "\A"}

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