[css-text-4] Let text-wrap-style apply to more than just block containers

[SebastianZ]

A quick test shows that implementations for text-wrap actually allow flex and block containers as well as tables, generally speaking all non-inline blocks.

Though the spec. currently restricts text-wrap-style to block containers.

Therefore, I suggest to change that to say that it applies to all containers but inline-level boxes.

Sebastian

[nt1m]

Should it be the text-wrap shorthand in general? Not sure about just changing a single longhand

[Loirooriol]

The 3 cases have an anonymous block container. It just works because it's an inherited property.

Applying to a flex container would imply affecting how flex items are distributed among flex lines, that's not what's happening here. (That would be reasonable, and I recall some existing issue about this, but probably shouldn't be named text-)

[frivoal]

I agree with @Loirooriol .

As for

Should it be the text-wrap shorthand in general?

No, because text-wrap-mode needs to apply to inlines/text, rather than block containers.

Not sure about just changing a single longhand

I don't think that's an issue. shorthand / longhand relationships are about parsing / cascading, while the "applies to" part describes the effects. Property having a value but no effect is common, and I'm pretty sure there's precedent for shorthands having longhands with different "applies to".