[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 110023] New: non conforming behaviour of whitespace: pre-wrap and pre in textareas

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110023

           Summary: non conforming behaviour of whitespace: pre-wrap and
                    pre in textareas
           Product: WebKit
           Version: 420+
          Platform: Unspecified
        OS/Version: Unspecified
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Text
        AssignedTo: webkit-unassigned at lists.webkit.org
        ReportedBy: etasho at gmail.com


Hello,
this is my first bug report, so please bear with me if my post doesn't live up to the standards of the typical bug reports found here.

According to the specification, white-space: pre-wrap should not collapse sequences of white space at the end of the line in a textarea, however webkit based browsers do not conform to this. On the contrary all other rendering engines ( gecko, presto, trident ) have the same behaviour: they break sequences of whitespaces and move the broken part to the next line.

gecko, presto, trident (ff, opera, ie): 

* white-space: pre-wrap; Breaks sequences of whitespaces at the end of the line ( correct behaviour ) and moves too-long-to-fit words to the next line ( correct behaviour )


webkit ( chrome, safari ):

* white-space: pre-wrap; Collapses sequences of whitespaces at the end of the line ( wrong behaviour ) and moves too-long-to-fit words to the next line ( correct behaviour )

If you visit this jsfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/LXUEe/2/ and you place the cursor in the textarea and start entering consecutive spaces, you will see that the cursor will just get "stucked" at the end of the box ( whitespace collapsing ). No other browser ( rendering engine ) other than chrome/safari does this. The correct ( desired ) behaviour for whitespaces, should be the one it would have if you set white-space: pre; and I would happily use that if chrome didn't break words ( maybe another bug? -- unlike every other browser ) at the end of the line, instead of moving them to the next line.

So due to this bug, it's not possible to have in webkit a textarea which simultaneously doesn't break too-long-to-fit words AND doesn't collapse sequences of white-spaces.

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