Rendering of style and script elements (white-space: pre)

[nuxodin]

Although script and style elements are not displayed by default, it would make sense to display spaces if you want to display the elements anyway.

This document specifies the rendering of "flow content".
https://www.w3.org/TR/2021/NOTE-html53-20210128/rendering.html#non-replaced-elements-flow-content

I recommend the following change:

- listing, plaintext, pre, xmp {
+ listing, plaintext, pre, xmp, script, style {
    font-family: monospace; white-space: pre;
  }

I don't know exactly what this would mean for backwards compatibility, but I think it would be a tolerable change.

[tabatkins]

I agree that when these are non-display:none they should be pre and monospace. These elements are displayed very rarely, but when they are (live code demos, for example), they're formatted in this way anyway.

That said, the UA stylesheet is maintained by the WHATWG HTML spec - could you raise this as an issue there?

[nuxodin]

Thank you, i raised an issue there.