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<!DOCTYPE html public '-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN'
  'http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd'>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
  <title>CSS Text Level 3</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../default.css">

  <style type="text/css">
    .egbidiwsaA,.egbidiwsbB,.egbidiwsaB,.egbidiwsbC
      { white-space:pre;font-size:80%;font-family:monospace; vertical-align:2px; margin:1px }
    .egbidiwsaA { background:lime;padding:2px; }
    .egbidiwsbB { border:2px solid blue }
    .egbidiwsaB { background:yellow;border:2px dotted white }
    .egbidiwsbC { border:2px dotted red }

    .char { border: 1px dotted gray; }
    .quarter { font-size: 25%; }
    tt[lang="ja"] { font-family: "MS Gothic", "Osaka", monospace }
    div.figure table {
      margin :auto;
    }
  </style>

  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.w3.org/StyleSheets/TR/W3C-ED.css">
</head>

<body>

<div class="head">

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<h1>CSS Text Level 3</h1>

<h2 class="no-num no-toc">[LONGSTATUS] [DATE]</h2>

<dl>
  <dt>This version:</dt>
    <dd><a href="http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-text/">$Date$ (CVS $Revision$)</a>
  <!--
    <dd><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/[YEAR]/WD-css3-text-[CDATE]/">http://www.w3.org/TR/[YEAR]/WD-css3-text-[CDATE]/</a></dd>
  -->
  <dt>Latest version:</dt>
    <dd><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-text/">http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-text/</a></dd>
  <dt>Latest editor's draft:</dt>
    <dd><a href="http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-text/">http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-text/</a></dd>
  <dt>Previous version:</dt>
    <dd><a
      href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-css3-text-20110901/">http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-css3-text-20110901/</a></dd>

  <dt>Issues List:</dt>
    <dd><a href="http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/Tracker/products/10">http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/Tracker/products/10</a>

  <dt>Discussion:</dt>
    <dd><a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/">www-style@w3.org</a> with subject line &ldquo;<kbd>[[SHORTNAME]] <var>&hellip; message topic &hellip;</var></kbd>&rdquo;

  <dt>Editors:</dt>
    <dd><a href="http://fantasai.inkedblade.net/contact">Elika J. Etemad</a> (Mozilla)</dd>
    <dd><a href="mailto:kojiishi@gluesoft.co.jp">Koji Ishii</a> (Invited Expert)</dd>
</dl>

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<p>[Here will be included the file "../copyright.inc"]</p>
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<hr title="Separator for header">
</div>

<h2 class="no-num no-toc" id="abstract">Abstract</h2>

  <p>This CSS3 module defines properties for text manipulation and
    specifies their processing model. It covers line breaking, justification
    and alignment, white space handling, text decoration and text
    transformation.</p>

<h2 class="no-num no-toc" id="status">Status of This Document</h2>

  <p><em>This section describes the status of this document at the time of
   its publication. Other documents may supersede this document. A list of
   current W3C publications and the latest revision of this technical report
   can be found in the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/">W3C technical reports
   index at http://www.w3.org/TR/.</a></em>

  <p>Publication as a Working Draft does not imply endorsement by the W3C
   Membership. This is a draft document and may be updated, replaced or
   obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to cite this
   document as other than work in progress.

  <p>This CSS module has been produced as a combined effort of the <a
    href="http://www.w3.org/International/Activity">W3C Internationalization Activity</a>,
    and the <a href="http://www.w3.org/Style/Activity">Style Activity</a> and is maintained
    by the <a href="http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members">CSS Working Group</a>. It also
    includes contributions made by participants in the <a
    href="http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/Group/">XSL Working Group</a> (<a
    href="http://cgi.w3.org/MemberAccess/AccessRequest">members
    only</a>).

  <p>This document was produced by a group operating under the <a
   href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/">5 February
   2004 W3C Patent Policy</a>. W3C maintains a <a
   href="http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/32061/status"
   rel=disclosure>public list of any patent disclosures</a> made in
   connection with the deliverables of the group; that page also includes
   instructions for disclosing a patent. An individual who has actual
   knowledge of a patent which the individual believes contains <a
   href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#def-essential">Essential
   Claim(s)</a> must disclose the information in accordance with <a
   href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-Disclosure">section
   6 of the W3C Patent Policy</a>.</p>

  <p><strong>Feedback on this draft should be posted to the
    (<a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/">archived</a>)
    public mailing list <a href="mailto:www-style@w3.org">www-style@w3.org</a></strong>
    (see <a href="http://www.w3.org/Mail/Request">instructions</a>) <strong>with
    <kbd>[css3-text]</kbd> in the subject line.</strong>
    You are strongly encouraged to complain if you see something stupid
    in this draft. The editors will do their best to respond to all feedback.</p>

  <p>The following features are at risk and may be cut from the spec during
    its CR period if there are no (correct) implementations:</p>
    <ul>
      <li>the &lt;length> values of the 'tab-size' property
      <li>the ''start end'' and ''&lt;string>'' values of 'text-align'
      <li>the 'hanging-punctuation' property
      <li>the percentage values of 'word-spacing'
      <li>the 'text-decoration-skip' property / ''ink'' value
      <li><span class="issue">audit draft and add more here</span>
    </ul>

<h2 class="no-num no-toc" id="contents">
Table of Contents</h2>

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<h2 id="intro">
Introduction</h2>

  <p>[document here]</p>

  <p class="issue">This draft describes features that are specific to certain scripts.
  There is an ongoing discussion about where these features belong: in
  existing CSS properties, in new CSS properties, or perhaps in other
  specifications.


<h3 id="placement">
Module Interactions</h3>

  <p>This module replaces and extends the text-level
  features defined in [[!CSS21]] chapter 16.

<h3 id="values">
Values</h3>

  <p>This specification follows the
  <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/about.html#property-defs">CSS property
  definition conventions</a> from [[!CSS21]]. Value types not defined in
  this specification are defined in CSS Level 2 Revision 1 [[!CSS21]].
  Other CSS modules may expand the definitions of these value types: for
  example [[CSS3COLOR]], when combined with this module, expands the
  definition of the &lt;color&gt; value type as used in this specification.</p>

  <p>In addition to the property-specific values listed in their definitions,
  all properties defined in this specification also accept the
  <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/cascade.html#value-def-inherit">inherit</a>
  keyword as their property value. For readability it has not been repeated
  explicitly.

<h3 id="terms">
Terminology</h3>

  <p id="grapheme-cluster">A <dfn>grapheme cluster</dfn> is what
    a language user considers to be a character or a basic unit of the
    script. The term is described in detail in the Unicode Technical
    Report: Text Boundaries [[!UAX29]]. This specification uses the
    <em>extended grapheme cluster</em> definition in [[!UAX29]] (not
    the <em>legacy grapheme cluster</em> definition). The UA may further
    tailor the definition as allowed by Unicode. Within this specification,
    the ambiguous term <dfn>character</dfn> is used as a friendlier synonym
    for <i>grapheme cluster</i>.
    See <a href="http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-writing-modes/#character-properties">Characters and Properties</a>
    for how to determine the Unicode properties of a character.

  <p id="letter">A <dfn>letter</dfn> for the purpose of this specification
    is a <i>character</i> belonging to one of the Letter or Number general
    categories in Unicode. [[!UAX44]]

  <p>The rendering characteristics of a <i>character</i> divided by an
    element boundary is undefined: it may be rendered as belonging to
    either side of the boundary, or as some approximation of belonging
    to both. Authors are forewarned that dividing grapheme clusters by
    element boundaries may give inconsistent or undesired results.

  <p>The <dfn>content language</dfn> of an element is the (human) language
    the element is declared to be in, according to the rules of the
    <a href="http://www.w3.org/CSS21/conform.html#doclanguage">document language</a>.
    For example, the rules for determining the content language of an HTML
    element use the <code>lang</code> attribute and are defined in [[HTML5]],
     and the rules for determining the content language of an XML element use
    the <code>xml:lang</code> attribute and are
    <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-lang-tag">defined</a> in [[XML10]].
    Note that it is possible for the <i>content language</i> of an element
    to be unknown.

  <p>Other terminology and concepts used in this specification are defined
    in [[!CSS21]] and [[!CSS3-WRITING-MODES]].

<h2 id="transforming">
  Transforming Text</h2>

  <h3 id="text-transform">
    <a name="caps-prop"></a>
    Transforming Text: the 'text-transform' property</h3>

    <table class="propdef">
      <tbody>
        <tr>
          <th>Name:</th>
          <td><dfn>text-transform</dfn></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <th><a href="#values">Value</a>:
          <td>none | capitalize | uppercase | lowercase | full-width | full-size-kana
          </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <th>Initial:</th>
          <td>none</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <th>Applies to:</th>
          <td>all elements</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <th>Inherited:</th>
          <td>yes</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <th>Percentages:</th>
          <td>N/A</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <th>Media:</th>
          <td>visual</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <th>Computed&#160;value:</th>
          <td>as specified</td>
        </tr>
      </tbody>
    </table>

    <p>This property transforms text for styling purposes.
      Values have the following meanings:</p>

    <dl>
      <dt><dfn title="text-transform:none">''none''</dfn></dt>
        <dd>No effects.</dd>
      <dt><dfn title="text-transform:capitalize">''capitalize''</dfn></dt>
        <dd>Puts the first <i>letter</i> of each word in titlecase; other characters
          are unaffected.</dd>
      <dt><dfn title="text-transform:uppercase">''uppercase''</dfn></dt>
        <dd>Puts all characters in uppercase.
      <dt><dfn title="text-transform:lowercase">''lowercase''</dfn></dt>
        <dd>Puts all characters in lowercase.</dd>
      <dt><dfn title="text-transform:full-width">''full-width''</dfn></dt>
        <dd>Puts all characters in fullwidth form.
          If the character does not have a corresponding fullwidth form,
          it is left as is.
          This value is typically used to typeset Latin characters and digits
          like ideographic characters.
      <dt><dfn title="text-transform:full-size-kana">''full-size-kana''</dfn></dt>
        <dd>Converts all small Kana characters to normal Kana.
          The mappings for small Kana to normal Kana are defined in
          <a href="#small-kana">Small Kana Mappings</a>.</p>
        <p class=note>
          This value is typically used for ruby annotation text,
          where due to the small type size, small Kana
          is often drawn as large Kana.
          This value allows such underlying text to use correct orthography
          so that it is accessible and can be styled correctly
          when not presented as ruby.
    </dl>

    <p>The case mapping rules for the character repertoire specified by the
      Unicode Standard can be found on the Unicode Consortium Web site
      [[!UNICODE]]. The UA must use the full case mappings for Unicode
      characters, including any conditional casing rules, as defined in
      Default Case Algorithm section. If (and only if) the content language
      of the element is, according to the rules of the
      <a href="http://www.w3.org/CSS21/conform.html#doclanguage">document language</a>,
      known, then any appropriate language-specific rules must be applied
      as well.
      These minimally include, but are not limited 
22D5
to, the language-specific
      rules in Unicode's
      <a href="http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/SpecialCasing.txt">SpecialCasing.txt</a>.

    <div class="example">
      <p>For example, in Turkish there are two &ldquo;i&rdquo;s, one with
        a dot&mdash;&ldquo;İ&rdquo; and &ldquo;i&rdquo;&mdash; and one
        without&mdash;&ldquo;I&rdquo; and &ldquo;ı&rdquo;. Thus the usual
        case mappings between &ldquo;I&rdquo; and &ldquo;i&rdquo; are
        replaced with a different set of mappings to their respective
        undotted/dotted counterparts, which do not exist in English. This
        mapping must only take effect if the language is known to be Turkish
        (or another Turkic language that uses Turkish casing rules);
        in other languages, the usual mapping of &ldquo;I&rdquo;
        and &ldquo;i&rdquo; is required. This rule is thus conditionally
        defined in Unicode's SpecialCasing.txt file.
    </div>

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    <div class="example">
      <p>An example where the UA may choose to include rules beyond those
        in Unicode is Greek. In Greek, if the entire word is in upper case,
        accents are dropped or transformed
       http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2006/08/18/706383.aspx
    </div>
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    <p>The definition of "word" used for ''capitalize'' is UA-dependent;
      [[!UAX29]] is suggested (but not required) for determining such word
      boundaries. Authors should not expect ''capitalize'' to follow
      language-specific titlecasing conventions (such as skipping articles
      in English).

    <p>The definition of fullwidth and halfwidth forms can be found on the
      Unicode consortium web site at [[!UAX11]].
      The mapping to fullwidth form is defined by taking code points with
      the &lt;wide&gt; or the &lt;narrow&gt; tag in their Decomposition_Mapping
      in [[!UAX44]]. For the &lt;narrow&gt; tag, the mapping is from the code
      point to the decomposition (minus &lt;narrow&gt; tag), and for the
      &lt;wide&gt; tag, the mapping is from the decomposition (minus the
      &lt;wide&gt; tag) back to the original code point.</p>

    <p>Text transformation happens after <a href="#white-space-rules">white
      space processing</a>, which means that ''full-width'' transforms
      only preserved U+0020 spaces to U+3000.

    <div class="example">
      <p>The following example converts the ASCII characters in abbreviations
        in Japanese to their fullwidth variants so that they lay out and line
        break like ideographs:
      <pre>abbr:lang(ja) { text-transform: full-width; }</pre>
    </div>

    <p class="issue">CSS may introduce the ability to create custom mapping
      tables for less common text transforms, such as by an ''@text-transform''
      rule similar to ''@counter-style'' from [[CSS3LIST]].
      This mechanism may be used to replace ''full-size-kana''. This would
      require authors needing this functionality to copy out the conversion
      tables, however.

<h2 id="white-space-processing">
  White Space Processing</h2>

  <p>The source text of a document often contains formatting that
    is not relevant to the final rendering: for example, breaking
    the source into segments (lines) for ease of editing or adding
    white space characters such as tabs and spaces to indent the
    source code. CSS white space processing allows the author to
    control interpretation of such formatting: to preserve or
    collapse it away when rendering the document. Note that white
    space processing in CSS interprets white space characters only
    for rendering: it has no effect on the underlying document data.

  <p id="segment-normalization">
    CSS does not define document segmentation rules. Segments could be
    separated by a particular newline seqence (such as a line feed or
    CRLF pair), or delimited by some other mechanism, such as the SGML
    RECORD-START and RECORD-END tokens.
    For CSS processing, each document-defined segment break, CRLF sequence
    (U+000D U+000A), carriage return (U+000D), and line feed (U+000A)
    in the text is treated as a segment break, which is then interpreted
    for rendering as defined below.

  <p class="note">Note that the document parser may have not only normalized
    segment breaks, but also collapsed other space characters or
    otherwise processed white space according to markup rules. Because CSS
    processing occurs <em>after</em> the parsing stage, it is not possible
    to restore these characters for styling. Therefore, some of the
    behavior specified below can be affected by these limitations and
    may be user agent dependent.</p>

  <p class="note">Note that anonymous inlines consisting entirely of
    <i>collapsible</i> white space are removed from the rendering tree.
    See [[CSS21]] section
    <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#anonymous">9.2.2.1</a></p>

  <p>Control characters (Unicode class Cc) other than tab (U+0009), line feed
    (U+000A), and carriage return (U+000D)
    are ignored for the purpose of rendering.

  <h3 id="white-space-collapsing">
    White Space Collapsing: the 'text-space-collapse' property</h3>

    <table class="propdef">
      <tbody>
        <tr>
          <th>Name:</th>
          <td><dfn>text-space-collapse</dfn></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <th><a href="#values">Value</a>:
          <td>collapse | preserve | preserve-breaks</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <th>Initial:</th>
          <td>collapse</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <th>Applies to:</th>
          <td>all elements</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <th>Inherited:</th>
          <td>yes</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <th>Percentages:</th>
          <td>N/A</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <th>Media:</th>
          <td>visual</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <th>Computed&#160;value:</th>
          <td>specified value</td>
        </tr>
      </tbody>
    </table>

    <p>This property declares whether and how
      <a href="#white-space-processing">white space</a> inside the element is
      collapsed. Values have the following meanings, which must be interpreted
      according to the <a href="#white-space-rules">white space processing
      rules</a>:</p>

    <dl>
      <dt><dfn title="white-space:collapse">''collapse''</dfn></dt>
      <dd>This value directs user agents to collapse sequences of white space
        into a single character (or <a href="#line-break-transform">in some
        cases</a>, no character).</dd>
      <dt><dfn title="white-space:preserve">''preserve''</dfn></dt>
      <dd>This value prevents user agents from collapsing sequences
      of white space. Segment breaks such as line feeds and carriage returns
      are preserved as forced line breaks.</dd>
      <dt><dfn title="white-space:preserve-breaks">''preserve-breaks''</dfn></dt>
      <dd>This value collapses consecutive spaces, but renders segment
      breaks as forced line breaks.</dd>
    </dl>

    <p>See <a href="#white-space-processing">White Space Processing Rules</a>
     for details on how white space collapses. An informative summary of
     ''collapse'' is presented below:
      <ul>
        <li>A sequence of segment breaks and other white space between two
          Chinese, Japanese, or Yi characters collapses into nothing.
        <li>A zero width space before or after a white space sequence
          containing a segment break causes the entire sequence of white space
          to collapse into a zero width space.
        <li>Otherwise, consecutive white space collapses into a single space.
      </ul>


  <h3 id="tab-size">
    Tab Character Size: the 'tab-size' property</h3>

    <table class="propdef">
      <tbody>
        <tr>
          <th>Name:</th>
          <td><dfn>tab-size</dfn></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <th><a href="#values">Value</a>:
          <td>&lt;integer&gt; | &lt;length&gt;</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <th>Initial:</th>
          <td>8</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <th>Applies to:</th>
          <td>block containers</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <th>Inherited:</th>
          <td>yes</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <th>Percentages:</th>
          <td>N/A</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <th>Media:</th>
          <td>visual</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <th>Computed&#160;value:</th>
          <td>specified value</td>
        </tr>
      </tbody>
    </table>

    <p>This property determines the measure of the tab character (U+0009)
      when rendered. Integers represent the measure in space characters (U+0020).
      Negative integers are not allowed.

  <h3 id="white-space-rules">
    The White Space Processing Rules</h3>

    <p>White space processing affects only spaces (U+0020), tabs (U+0009),
      and <a href="#segment-normalization">segment breaks</a>.

    <p>For each inline (including anonymous inlines) within an inline
      formatting context, white space characters are handled as follows,
      ignoring bidi formatting characters as if they were not there:</p>

    <ul>
    <li id="collapse"><p>If 'text-space-collapse'
      is set to ''collapse'' or ''preserve-breaks'', white space characters
      are considered <dfn>collapsible</dfn> and are processed by
      performing the following steps:</p>
      <ol>
        <li>All spaces and tabs immediately preceding or following a segment
          break are removed.</li>
        <li>Segment breaks are transformed for
          rendering according to the <a href="#line-break-transform">line
          break transformation rules</a>.
        </li>
        <li>Every tab is converted to a space (U+0020).</li>
        <li>Any space immediately following another collapsible space
          &mdash;even one outside the boundary of the inline containing
          the space, provided they are within the same inline formatting
          context&mdash;is collapsed to have zero advance width. (It is
          invisible, but retains its line-breaking opportunity, if any.)</li>
      </ol>
    </li>
    <li><p>If 'text-space-collapse' is set to ''preserve'', any sequence of
      spaces is treated as a sequence of non-breaking spaces. However,
      a line breaking opportunity exists at the end of the sequence.</p></li>
    </ul>

      reordering into account, and wrapping as specified by the
      'text-wrap' property.</p>

    <p>As each line is laid out,</p>
    <ol>
      <li>A sequence of collapsible spaces at the beginning of a line is
        removed.
      <li>Each tab is rendered as a horizontal shift that lines up
        the start edge of the next glyph with the next tab stop.
        Tab stops occur at points that are multiples of the width of a
        space (U+0020) rendered in the block's font from the block's
        starting content edge. How many spaces is given by the 'tab-size'
        property.</li>
      <li>A sequence of collapsible spaces at the end of a line is removed.
      <li>If spaces or tabs at the end of a line are non-collapsible but
         have 'text-wrap' set to 'normal' or 'avoid' the UA may visually
         collapse their character advance widths.
    </ol>

    <p>White space that was not removed or collapsed during the white space
      processing steps is called <dfn>preserved</dfn> white space.</p>

    <div class="example">
    <h4 id="egbidiwscollapse">
      Example of bidirectionality with white space collapsing</h4>

      <p>Consider the following markup fragment, taking special note of spaces
        (with varied backgrounds and borders for emphasis and identification):
        </p>
      <pre><code>&lt;ltr&gt;A<span class="egbidiwsaA">&#160;</span>&lt;rtl&gt;<span class="egbidiwsbB">&#160;</span>B<span class="egbidiwsaB">&#160;</span>&lt;/rtl&gt;<span class="egbidiwsbC">&#160;</span>C&lt;/ltr&gt;</code></pre>

      <p>where the <code>&lt;ltr&gt;</code> element represents a left-to-right
        embedding and the <code>&lt;rtl&gt;</code> element represents a
        right-to-left embedding. If the 'text-space-collapse' property is set
        to ''collapse'', the above processing model would result in the
        following:</p>

      <ul style="line-height:1.3">
        <li>The space before the B (<span class="egbidiwsbB">&#160;</span>)
          would collapse with the space after the A (<span
          class="egbidiwsaA">&#160;</span>).</li>
        <li>The space before the C (<span class="egbidiwsbC">&#160;</span>)
          would collapse with the space after the B (<span
          class="egbidiwsaB">&#160;</span>).</li>
      </ul>

      <p>This would leave two spaces, one after the A in the left-to-right
        embedding level, and one after the B in the right-to-left embedding
        level. This is then ordered according to the Unicode bidirectional
        algorithm, with the end result being:</p>

      <pre>A<span class="egbidiwsaA">&#160;</span><span class="egbidiwsaB">&#160;</span>BC</pre>

      <p>Note that there are two spaces between A and B, and none between B
        and C. This is best avoided by putting spaces outside the element
        instead of just inside the opening and closing tags and, where
        practical, by relying on implicit bidirectionality instead of explicit
        embedding levels.</p>
    </div>

    <h4 id="line-break-transform">
      Line Break Transformation Rules</h4>

      <p>When 'text-space-collapse' is ''preserve-breaks'', segment breaks are
      not <i>collapsible</i> and are transformed into a preserved line feed
      (U+000A).

      <p>When segment breaks are <i>collapsible</i>, they are
        either transformed into a space (U+0020) or removed depending on the
        context before and after the break.</p>

      <p class="note">Note that the white space processing rules have already
        removed any tabs and spaces after the segment break before these checks
        take place.</p>

      <ul>
        <li>If the character immediately before or immediately after the segment
          break is the zero-width space character (U+200B), then the break
          is removed, leaving behind the zero-width space.
        <li>Otherwise, if the East Asian Width property [[!UAX11]] of both
          the character before and after the line feed is F, W, or H (not A),
          and neither side is Hangul, then the segment break is removed.
        <li>Otherwise, the segment break is converted to a space (U+0020).
      </ul>

      <p class="issue">Comments on how well this would work in practice would
        be very much appreciated, particularly from people who work with
        Thai and similar scripts.</p>

  <h3 id="white-space">
    White Space and Text Wrapping Shorthand: the 'white-space' property</h3>

    <table class="propdef">
      <tbody>
        <tr>
          <th>Name:</th>
          <td><dfn>white-space</dfn></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <th><a href="#values">Value</a>:
          <td>normal | pre | nowrap | pre-wrap | pre-line</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <th>Initial:</th>
          <td>not defined for shorthand properties</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <th>Applies to:</th>
          <td>all elements</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <th>Inherited:</th>
          <td>yes</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <th>Percentages:</th>
          <td>N/A</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <th>Media:</th>
          <td>visual</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <th>Computed&#160;value:</th>
          <td>see individual properties</td>
        </tr>
      </tbody>
    </table>

    <p>The 'white-space' property is a shorthand for the
      'text-space-collapse' and 'text-wrap' properties.
      Not all combinations are represented.
      Values have the following meanings:</p>

    <dl>
      <dt><dfn title="white-space:normal">''normal''</dfn></dt>
      <dd>Sets 'text-space-collapse' to ''collapse'' and
        'text-wrap' to ''normal''</dd>
      <dt><dfn title="white-space:pre">''pre''</dfn></dt>
      <dd>Sets 'text-space-collapse' to ''preserve'' and
        'text-wrap' to ''nowrap''</dd>
      <dt><dfn title="white-space:nowrap">''nowrap''</dfn></dt>
      <dd>Sets 'text-space-collapse' to ''collapse'' and
        'text-wrap' to ''nowrap''</dd>
      <dt><dfn title="white-space:pre-wrap">''pre-wrap''</dfn></dt>
      <dd>Sets 'text-space-collapse' to ''preserve'' and
        'text-wrap' to ''normal''</dd>
      <dt><dfn title="white-space:pre-line">''pre-line''</dfn></dt>
      <dd>Sets 'text-space-collapse' to ''preserve-breaks'' and
        'text-wrap' to ''normal''</dd>
    </dl>

    <p>The following informative table summarizes the behavior of various
      'white-space' values:</p>

    <table class="data">
      <colgroup class="header"></colgroup>
      <colgroup span=3></colgroup>
      <thead>
        <tr>
          <th></th>
          <th>New Lines</th>
          <th>Spaces and Tabs</th>
          <th>Text Wrapping</th>
        </tr>
      </thead>
      <tbody>
        <tr>
          <th>normal</th>
          <td>Collapse</td>
          <td>Collapse</td>
          <td>Wrap</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <th>pre</th>
          <td>Preserve</td>
          <td>Preserve</td>
          <td>No wrap</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <th>nowrap</th>
          <td>Collapse</td>
          <td>Collapse</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <th>pre-wrap</th>
          <td>Preserve</td>
          <td>Preserve</td>
          <td>Wrap</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <th>pre-line</th>
          <td>Preserve</td>
          <td>Collapse</td>
          <td>Wrap</td>
      </tbody>
    </table>

<h2 id="line-breaking">
  Line Breaking and Word Boundaries</h2>

  <p>In most writing systems, in the absence of hyphenation a line break occurs
    only at word boundaries. Many writing systems use spaces or
    punctuation to explicitly separate words, and line break opportunities
    can be identified by these characters. Scripts such as Thai, Lao, and
    Khmer, however, do not use spaces or punctuation to separate words.
    Although the zero width space (U+200B) can be used as an explicit word
    delimiter in these scripts, this practice is not common. As a result,
    a lexical resource is needed to correctly identify break points in such
    texts.

  <p>In several other writing systems, (including Chinese, Japanese, Yi,
    and sometimes also Korean) a line break opportunity is based on
    character boundaries, not word boundaries. In these systems a line can break
    anywhere <em>except</em> between certain character combinations.
    Additionally the level of strictness in these restrictions can vary
    with the typesetting style.</p>

  <p>CSS does not fully define where line breaking opportunities occur,
    however some controls are provided to distinguish common variations.
    For breaking opportunities created by characters that disappear at the
    line break (i.e. spaces), properties on the element containing that
    character control the line breaking at that opportunity.
    For breaking opportunities defined by the boundary between two characters,
    the properties on the element containing the boundary control breaking.
    <!-- http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Dec/0043.html -->
    For break opportunities given by the first or last character of a
    box, the break occurs immediately before/after the box (at its margin
    edge) rather than breaking the box at its content edge.

  <div class="note">
    <p>Further information on line breaking conventions can be found in
      [[JLREQ]] and [[JIS4051]] for Japanese,
      [[ZHMARK]] for Chinese, and
      in [[!UAX14]] for all scripts in Unicode.
      <!-- The CSS Working Group notes that although UAX 14 contains a wealth of
      information about line breaking conventions, a literal implementation
      of its algorithm has been found to be inadequate in multiple situations. -->

    <p class="issue">Any guidance for appropriate references here would be
      much appreciated.
      <!-- Additionally, some guidance could be provided on how
      to break or not break Southeast Asian in the absence of a dictionary.
      (See e.g. <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011Feb/0126.html">notes on Thai</a>.) -->
  </div>

  <p>Floated and absolutely-positioned elements do not introduce a line
    breaking opportunity. The line breaking behavior of a replaced element
    is equivalent to that of the Object Replacement Character (U+FFFC).

  <h3 id="line-break">
    Line Breaking Strictness: the 'line-break' property</h3>

    <table class="propdef">
      <tbody>
        <tr>
          <th>Name:</th>
          <td><dfn>line-break</dfn></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <th><a href="#values">Value</a>:
          <td>auto | loose | normal | strict</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <th>Initial:</th>
          <td>auto</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <th>Applies to:</th>
          <td>all elements</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <th>Inherited:</th>
          <td>yes</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <th>Percentages:</th>
          <td>N/A</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <th>Media:</th>
          <td>visual</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <th>Computed&#160;value:</th>
          <td>specified value</td>
        </tr>
      </tbody>
    </table>

    <p>This property specifies the strictness of line-breaking rules applied
      within an element: particularly how line-breaking interacts with
      punctuation. Values have the following meanings:</p>

    <dl>
      <dt><dfn title="line-break:auto">''auto''</dfn></dt>
      <dd>The UA determines the set of line-breaking restrictions to use,
        and it may vary the restrictions based on the length of the line; e.g.,
        use a less restrictive set of line-break rules for short lines.</dd>
      <dt><dfn title="line-break:loose">''loose''</dfn></dt>
      <dd>Breaks text using the least restrictive set of line-breaking
        rules. Typically used for short lines, such as in newspapers.</dd>
      <dt><dfn title="line-break:normal">''normal''</dfn></dt>
      <dd>Breaks text using the most common set of line-breaking rules.</dd>
      <dt><dfn title="line-break:strict">''strict''</dfn></dt>
      <dd>Breaks text using the most stringent set of line-breaking
        rules.</dd>
    </dl>

    <p>CSS distinguishes between three levels of strictness in the rules for
      implicit line breaking. The precise set of rules in effect for each
      level is up to the UA and should follow language conventions. However,
      this specification does recommend that:</p>

    <ul>
      <li>Following breaks be forbidden in ''strict'' line breaking and
        allowed in ''normal'' and ''loose'':
        <ul>
          <li>breaks before Japanese <a href="#small-kana">small kana</a>
          <li>breaks before the Katakana-Hiragana prolonged sound mark:
            &#x30FC;&nbsp;U+30FC
        </ul>
        If the language is known to be Chinese or Japanese, then additionally:
        <ul>
          <li>breaks before before hyphens:<br>
            &#x2010;&nbsp;U+2010,  &#x2013;&nbsp;U+2013,  &#x301C;&nbsp;U+301C,
            &#x30A0;&nbsp;U+30A0
        </ul>
      <li>Following breaks be forbidden in ''normal'' and ''strict'' line
        breaking and allowed in ''loose'':
        <ul>
          <li>breaks before iteration marks:<br>
            &#x3005;&nbsp;U+3005,  &#x303B;&nbsp;U+303B,  &#x309D;&nbsp;U+309D,
            &#x309E;&nbsp;U+309E,  &#x30FD;&nbsp;U+30FD,  &#x30FE;&nbsp;U+30FE
          <li>breaks between some inseparable characters:<br>
            &#x2025;&nbsp;U+2025,  &#x2026;&nbsp;U+2026
        </ul>
        If the language is known to be Chinese or Japanese, then additionally:
        <ul>
          <li>breaks before certain centered punctuation marks:<br>
            &#x003A;&nbsp;U+003A,  &#x003B;&nbsp;U+003B,  &#x30FB;&nbsp;U+30FB,
            &#xFF1A;&nbsp;U+FF1A,  &#xFF1B;&nbsp;U+FF1B,  &#xFF65;&nbsp;U+FF65,
            &#x0021;&nbsp;U+0021,  &#x003F;&nbsp;U+003F,  &#x203C;&nbsp;U+203C,
            &#x2047;&nbsp;U+2047,  &#x2048;&nbsp;U+2048,  &#x2049;&nbsp;U+2049,
            &#xFF01;&nbsp;U+FF01,  &#xFF1F;&nbsp;U+FF1F
          <li>breaks before postfixes:<br>
            &#x0025;&nbsp;U+0025,  &#x00A2;&nbsp;U+00A2,  &#x00B0;&nbsp;U+00B0,
            &#x2030;&nbsp;U+2030,  &#x2032;&nbsp;U+2032,  &#x2033;&nbsp;U+2033,
            &#x2103;&nbsp;U+2103,  &#xFF05;&nbsp;U+FF05,  &#xFFE0;&nbsp;U+FFE0
          <li>breaks after prefixes:<br>
            &#x0024;&nbsp;U+0024,  &#x00A3;&nbsp;U+00A3,  &#x00A5;&nbsp;U+00A5,
            &#x20AC;&nbsp;U+20AC,  &#x2116;&nbsp;U+2116,  &#xFF04;&nbsp;U+FF04,
            &#xFFE1;&nbsp;U+FFE1,  &#xFFE5;&nbsp;U+FFE5
        </ul>
    </ul>

    <p class="note">In the recommended list above, no distinction is made among the levels of
      strictness in non-CJK text: only CJK codepoints are affected, unless
      the text is marked as Chinese or Japanese, in which case some additional
      common codepoints are affected. However a future level of CSS may add
      behaviors affecting non-CJK text.

    <p>Support for this property is <em>optional</em>. It is recommended
      for UAs that wish to support CJK typography and strongly recommended
      for UAs in the Japanese market.</p>

    <p class="note">The CSSWG recognizes that in a future edition of the
      specification finer control over line breaking may be necessary to
      satisfy high-end publishing requirements.

  <h3 id="word-break">
    Word Breaking Rules: the 'word-break' property</h3>

    <table class="propdef">
      <tbody>
        <tr>
          <th>Name:</th>
          <td><dfn>word-break</dfn></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <th><a href="#values">Value</a>:
          <td>normal | keep-all | break-all</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <th>Initial:</th>
          <td>normal</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <th>Applies to:</th>
          <td>all elements</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <th>Inherited:</th>
          <td>yes</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <th>Percentages:</th>
          <td>N/A</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <th>Media:</th>
          <td>visual</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <th>Computed&#160;value:</th>
          <td>specified value</td>
        </tr>
      </tbody>
    </table>

    <p>This property specifies line break opportunities within words.
      Values have the following meanings:</p>

    <dl>
      <dt><dfn title="word-break:normal">''normal''</dfn></dt>
      <dd>Break lines according to their usual rules.</dd>
      <dt><dfn title="word-break:break-all">''break-all''</dfn></dt>
      <dd>In addition to normal opportunities, lines may break between any two
        letters within words except where forbidden by the 'line-break' property.
        Hyphenation is not applied. This option is used mostly in a context where
        the text is predominantly using CJK characters with few non-CJK excerpts
        and it is desired that the text be better distributed on each line.</dd>
      <dt><dfn title="word-break:keep-all">''keep-all''</dfn></dt>
      <dd>Break opportunties between ID/ID, AL/ID, and ID/AL as defined in [[UAX14]]
        are prohibited. Otherwise this option is equivalent to ''normal''.
        This option produces a style where sequences of ideographic characters do
        not break, and word separator characters are present to create line-breaking
        opportunities.
        Such sytle is sometimes seen in Korean magazines, and is also useful for
        mixed-script text where CJK snippets are mixed into another language that
        uses spaces for seapration.</dd>
    </dl>

     <div class="example">
      <p>Here's a mixed-script sample text:
      <pre>这是一些汉字, and some Latin,<!--
        --> &#x0648; &#x06A9;&#x0645;&#x06CC; &#x0646;&#x0648;&#x0634;&#x062A;&#x0646;&#x0646; &#x0639;&#x0631;&#x0628;&#x06CC;, <!--
        -->และตัวอย่างการเขียนภาษาไทย.</pre>
      <p>The break-points are determined as follows (indicated by &lsquo;&middot;&rsquo;):
      <dl>
        <dt>''word-break: normal''</dt>
        <dd>
      <pre>这·是·一·些·汉·字,·and·some·Latin,<!--
        -->·&#x0648;·&#x06A9;&#x0645;&#x06CC;·&#x0646;&#x0648;&#x0634;&#x062A;&#x0646;&#x0646;·&#x0639;&#x0631;&#x0628;&#x06CC;·<!--
        -->และ·ตัวอย่าง·การเขียน·ภาษาไทย.</.pre>
        <dt>''word-break: break-all''</dt>
        <dd>
      <pre>这·是·一·些·汉·字·a·n·d·s·o·m·e·L·a·t·i·n,<!--
        -->·&#x0648;·&#xFB90;·&#xFEE4;·&#xFEF0;·&#xFEE7;·&#xFEEE;·&#xFEB7;·&#xFE98;·&#xFEE6;·&#xFECB;·&#xFEAE;·&#xFE91;·&#xFEF0;,·<!--
        -->แ·ล·ะ·ตั·ว·อ·ย่·า·ง·ก·า·ร·เ·ขี·ย·น·ภ·า·ษ·า·ไ·ท·ย.</pre>
        <dt>''word-break: keep-all''</dt>
        <dd>