[selectors] What a whitespace character is

[r12a]

https://www.w3.org/Mail/flatten/index?subject=what+a+whitespace++character+is&list=www-style

The i18n WG was reviewing issues that it is tracking and came across the discussion thread in the link above.

The ends of the discussion don't all appear to be tidied up. Could someone (maybe @fantasai?) please summarise what progress was made on the issues raised and the current status.

Thanks.

[frivoal]

This wasn't an issue about about what white space means in css-text (which is well defined), but one about what it meant in the :blank selectors. The answer may have needed to refer to css-text, but that doesn't make it an issue about css-text itself, so changing tags.

[frivoal]

Also, the latest version of the spec on the :blank selector no longer refers to white spaces, and says this instead:

The :blank pseudo-class applies to user-input elements whose input value is empty (consists of the empty string or otherwise null input).

I think we can close this issue.

[frivoal]

Agenda+ to confirm the above. Chairs / editors, feel free to close without a conf call discussion if you think this is sufficiently obvious.

[css-meeting-bot]

The CSS Working Group just discussed What a whitespace character is, and agreed to the following:

• RESOLVED: Close theissue

The full IRC log of that discussion

<dael> Topic: What a whitespace character is
<dael> github: https://github.com//issues/3754
<dael> florian: Filed against text, but it's a selectors issue. But I'm not editor. I think we can close though. Old definition of common blank is it conains only whitespace. We no longer rely on whitespace so I think this is a non-issue.
<dael> TabAtkins: Yeah, close
<dael> Rossen_: Other opinions?
<dael> Rossen_: Objections to close the issue
<dael> RESOLVED: Close theissue