<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN"> <html> <head> <title>white-space normal: zero width non-breaking space</title> <style type="text/css"> /* setup */ .control { display: inline; font: 1em/1 Ahem, sans-serif; background: red; color: white; } * { white-space: normall; font: inherit; } div { display: block; margin: 1em; } span { display: inline; } /* test */ div { font: 20px/1 Ahem; width: 4em; background: red; color: green; } </style> </head> <body> <div class="control">Ahem_font_required_for_this_test.</div> <p>There should be a green block below, no red.</p> <div> xxxx xxxx </div> </body> </html>