When does white space matter in HTML? (2016)

Re:When does white space matter in HTML? (2016) by z3t4 on Saturday July 28, 2018 @04:09PM (#17634776)

I just hate when the web browsers renders differently depending on if you have a line break between certain elements. Line breaks in HTML source code should not matter!

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Re:When does white space matter in HTML? (2016) by 8xde0wcNwpslOw on Saturday July 28, 2018 @08:06PM (#17635745)

>Line breaks in HTML source code should not matter!

So, should you put spaces at the end, or at the beginning of lines in text that's broken into multiple lines?

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Re:When does white space matter in HTML? (2016) by ldjb on Saturday July 28, 2018 @04:26PM (#17634856)

But what if you want to use elements like <pre> or <textarea>? How would you put in a line break on the rendered page? I suppose there's an argument to be made for not rendering line breaks as a space, but such a change to the HTML spec at this stage is probably not going to happen.

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