[css-text-4] split text-wrap: pretty | balance from text-wrap: wrap | nowrap

[fantasai]

The original intention of the text-wrap longhand of white-space was to host the wrap and nowrap values, i.e. control whether or not text wraps.

Along the way we added controls about how it wraps: balance, pretty. And now people are discussing whether to add more controls here.

But probably the question of how something wraps should cascade independently of whether it wraps, similar to how text-justify is a separate property from text-align: justify.

Should we split out these values so that we have:

• white-space
  • white-space-collapse: collapse | preserve | etc.
  • something: wrap | nowrap
• otherthing: normal | balance | pretty | etc.

?

Possible names for these properties (I'm not sold on any of them): text-wrap, line-wrap, inline-wrap, wrap-style, wrap-behavior, ...

[fantasai]

CC @kojiishi

[chrishtr]

Hi, is this a dup of #9102?

[frivoal]

Hi, is this a dup of #9102?

I'd say it is, yes.