<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN"> <html> <!-- ================================================================ --> <!-- WARNING! This document contains significant trailing whitespace! --> <!-- ================================================================ --> <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; } .green { background: lime; color: green; } .red { background: red; color: maroon; } </style> </head> <body> <div class="control">Ahem_font_required_for_this_test.</div> <p>There should be no red below, only three identical striped green and lime bars.</p> <!-- the next two tests are identical, but one uses raw data and the other uses entities --> <div><span class="red"> <span class="green">X <span class="red"><span class="red"> <span class="red"> </span></span> </span>X <span class="red"> </span>X<span class="red"><span class="red"><span class="green"> </span><span class="red"> </span></span> </span>X <span class="red"> </span> <span class="green">X<span class="green"> <span class="red"> </span></span><span class="red"> </span>X<span class="red"> </span></span></div> <div><span class="red">

   <span class="green">X <span class="red"><span class="red"> <span class="red">
   </span></span> </span>X <span class="red"> 
   </span>X<span class="red"><span class="red"><span class="green"> </span><span class="red"> </span></span> </span>X
<span class="red"> 
   
   </span>
   <span class="green">X<span class="green"> <span class="red"> </span></span><span class="red"> </span>X<span class="red">

  </span></span></div> <div><span class="green">X X X X X X</span></div> </body> </html>